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Britney Spears' estate will advance her father $2,500 a week


A court commissioner has ordered Britney Spears' estate to pay some bills — including weekly payments and a car for her father.

In documents released by Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday but signed on Wednesday, Commissioner Reva Goetz ordered $2,500 (euro1,600) in weekly compensation for James Spears. He was also authorized to lease a vehicle.

Goetz extended his temporary conservatorship until July 31. His temporary authority to handle his daughter's affairs was scheduled to expire on March 10.

James Spears, who recently worked as a caterer, was named conservator of his daughter and co-conservator of her estate after she was hospitalized twice in January.

The court ordered a $58,800 (euro38,000) payment to the volunteer court-appointed attorney who represents Britney Spears in the conservatorship case, Samuel D. Ingham III.

Goetz authorized the pop star's psychiatrist to hire two other doctors and pay them retainers totaling $9,000 (euro6,000) from her estate.

An attorney for James Spears, Vivian Thoreen, argued in court documents that the extension of the temporary conservatorship was necessary because Jon Eardley, an attorney who made an unsuccessful attempt to move the probate case to federal court last month, had filed additional papers in U.S. District Court. Those documents were under seal.

The latest documents also outline the scope of the power James Spears wields over his daughter's life: he can restrict and limit visitors except for meetings with her court-appointed attorney, retain caretakers and security guards, and has access to all medical records.

In the past year, Spears was caught on camera engaging in increasingly bizarre behavior. She shaved her head, beat a vehicle with an umbrella, wore skirts without underwear and left her own car on a busy thoroughfare after getting a flat tire.

The strange outbursts and hospitalizations contributed to the 26-year-old losing custody of her young sons, Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2. Ex-husband Kevin Federline has sole custody.

Spears was allowed brief visits with the boys beginning in late February after not seeing them for nearly two months. That happened after Spears and Federline agreed to modify the court order that had stripped Spears of her visitation rights, according to Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan.

Spears' parents came to Los Angeles around the time of her second hospitalization.

Spears has kept a noticeably lower profile since being released from the hospital Feb. 6.

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Author:RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
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