Britney Spears' Conservatorship Nightmare
Britney Spears’ conservatorship should concern us all. Spears, who is thirty-nine, has spent the past thirteen years living under a conservatorship, the legal structure in which a person’s personal, economic, and legal decision-making power is controlled by others. Called a “guardianship” in most states, the arrangement is legal for people who cannot take care of themselves, either mentally or physically. Her conservators, including her father Jamie Spears, have thus been giv