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Britney Spears’ Doctors Back Effort to Boot Father Jamie Spears From Conservatorship, Per New Legal Doc

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Elizabeth Wagmeister and Shirley Halperin
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The legal battle over Britney Spears’ 13-year-old conservatorship continues, as efforts to remove the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, are ramping up.

According to new legal docs, the pop star’s doctors are in favor of booting her father. The claim made in the filing would be a major development — should Spears’ medical team believe that her father is causing harm to her case, the court would likely take that very seriously.

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The new filing comes the same week that Spears’ new attorney, Mathew Rosengart, officially petitioned to suspend and remove Spears’ father from the conservatorship.

The doc was filed on July 28 in Los Angeles Superior Court by the attorney Laurieann Wright, who represents Spears’ temporary conservator Jodi Montgomery. In the filing, Montgomery — who has the pop star’s support to remain on her case — says that she wants Spears’ father removed from the conservatorship, putting her in agreement with Rosengart, who represents the international superstar.

The doc notes that Montgomery has “concluded that Jamie Spears should not continue to act as … Conservator of the Estate, because his doing so is not in the best interest of” Britney Spears. The filing further notes that Montgomery claims that Spears’ “medical team agrees that it is not in the best interest of the Conservatee for Mr. Spears to remain Conservator.”

In addition, Montgomery gives her backing to the appointment of CPA Jason Rubin to manage Spears’ finances while under conservatorship, instead of her father. (Earlier this week, Rosengart filed that he and Spears have selected Rubin to replace the elder Spears, should the court remove or suspend him.)

Spears’ father has been atop the conservatorship since 2008 when he asked the court to place his famous daughter under the legal guardianship, following a highly-documented time of public turmoil in 2007 in the public eye of the paparazzi. He is currently the conservator of his daughter’s estate, meaning he controls all financial decisions, while Montgomery is the conservator of her person, meaning she manages her day-to-day well being and consults with her doctors on medical decisions.

Montgomery’s legal doc is another step towards a potential major victory for Spears, who is adamantly against her father being involved with her conservatorship. Spears has previously told a judge that she wants to “press charges” against her father for “conservatorship abuse.”