Britney Spears' dad is stepping down from her conservatorship
Jamie Spears has stated his willingness to step down as his daughter's financial conservator

Jamie Spears, father of pop superstar Britney Spears, has announced his intentions to step down from his role as financial conservator over his daughter’s estate. The news—couched in the heavy layers of legally worded passive aggression that have been a hallmark of the various non-Britney camps fighting it out for control over her life over the last several years—comes as the controversial legal arrangement that dictates her personal, medical, and financial decisions has come under increased public scrutiny of late. The elder Spears has served as either his daughter’s personal or financial conservator (and, generally, both), with wide power over the vast majority of aspects of her life, for more than 13 years at this point.
This latest round of criticism gained new vigor in the wake of Britney Spears’ own testimony in open court in June, the first time the musician had spoken publicly about the arrangement in years. Among other things, Spears called out her father specifically, stating that, ““he loved the control he had over me, one hundred thousand percent.” Spears’ various lawyers—first, the court-appointed Samuel Ingham, and now Mathew S. Rosengart (the first lawyer Spears has been allowed to choose for herself in more than a decade) have filed motions on her behalf asking for Jamie Spears to be removed from his positions of power over his daughter’s life, requests that Jamie Spears’ camp has responded to by repeatedly playing the “Daddy just wants what’s best for his baby girl” defense, in case the layers of patriarchal bullshit surrounding Spears’ conservatorship weren’t already pungent enough.