Ex-husband lets Britney visit sons - Feb 24 2008
Kevin Federline has agreed to give ex-wife Britney Spears visitation rights with their two young sons.

Federline’s lawyer Mark Kaplan said the former couple had agreed to a modification of a court order that had stripped troubled pop star Spears, 26, of her visitation rights.

A court commissioner gave Federline sole physical and legal custody of their sons and suspended the Spears’ visitation rights on January 4.

Spears has not been allowed to see sons Jayden, one, and Sean, two, since an incident at her home that led to the first of her two admissions to a hospital psychiatric department this year.

Spears and her estate were placed under the temporary conservatorship of her father James after she was taken to UCLA Medical Centre on January 31.

Conservatorships are granted for people deemed unable to care for themselves or their affairs.

Britney restraining order extended - Feb 22 2008
A judge has extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ friend and sometime manager Sam Lutfi by nearly a month.

US District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez ordered a March 17 hearing on the matter and extended the restraining order until then.

The action comes on the same day Mr Lutfi was served with the restraining order issued earlier this month.

In court papers, Jeffrey Wexler, a lawyer for 26-year-old Spears’ father James, wrote that "after three weeks of apparently evading service," Mr Lutfi was served with the order outside his Los Angeles apartment.

The order, which requires Mr Lutfi to stay 250 yards away from Spears and her home, was set to expire on Friday.

Mr Wexler had asked for the order to be extended until the court could schedule a hearing.

On February 7, Spears’ mother Lynne requested the temporary restraining order against the troubled singer’s frequent companion, claiming Mr Lutfi had held Spears hostage in her own home, drugged her and taken over her finances.

Lawyers for Mr Spears, who was named co-conservator of his daughter’s estate, told a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner that investigators spent more than 200 hours trying to locate Mr Lutfi and serve him the restraining order.

Spears and her estate, estimated to be worth £52.5 million, were placed under a temporary conservatorship after she was taken to UCLA Medical Centre on January 31. Conservatorships are granted for people deemed unable to care for themselves or their affairs.

Court throws out Britney media gag - Feb 20 2008
A court has refused to stop lawyers involved in Britney Spears’ child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline from speaking to the press.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon rejected the request after Anne Kiley argued that media coverage was "emotionally and physically" dangerous to the troubled pop star.

K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Kaplan, said the absence of a gag order did not leave Britney’s children in jeopardy and claimed that the singer was more concerned about the paparazzi frenzy that followed her.

Mr Kaplan noted that the paparazzi swarms existed before Britney filed for divorce in November 2006.

Neither the Toxic star nor her aspriging rapper ex were present at the hearing.

Britney has not been allowed to see sons Jayden, one, and Sean, two, since an incident at her home that led to the first of her two admissions to hospital psychiatric wards this year and a decision by another court to put her father James in charge of her affairs.

Outside court, Mr Kaplan said K-Fed would like the singer to see her children.