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Two Republican lawmakers called for a hearing to examine legal conservatories, citing the widely reported deal of pop star Britney Spears involving her father as the curator of her property.
House Judicial Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, asked President Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., to schedule a hearing to examine potentially unfair conservatories. in a letter dated Monday and posted on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Spears Conservatory has drawn attention in recent weeks after the New York Times aired a documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” about the so-called Free Britney movement. Activists involved in the movement claim that Spears is unjustly detained in a conservatory by her father, who is able to control her finances. Although Spears has rarely commented on the conservatory, recent court reports have shown that he called for his father to be removed as the sole conservative.
Conservatories are used to assign financial or personal decisions to another person in case a person cannot make them on their own. The Spears Conservative is unusual for his youth when he imposed himself and how long he lasted. Conservatories are most often used in cases of mental disability or dementia that prevent a person from making their own decisions.
Spears was about 20 years old when a court approved his position as Conservative in 2008. This came after a series of high-profile incidents that led the public to question the state of his mental health and rehabilitation periods and a psychiatric hospital.
“Given the constitutional freedoms at stake and the opacity of these agreements, it is up to our committee to convene a hearing to examine whether Americans are unfairly trapped in conservatories,” Jordan and Gaetz wrote.
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