Jamie Spears, Britney Spears' father, has filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court saying he intends to step down as conservator of his daughter's estate, delivering the star a major victory in her high-profile conservatorship battle.

What You Need To Know

  • Jamie Spears, Britney Spears' father, has filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court saying he intends to step down as conservator of his daughter's estate

  • The move comes after months of a highly publicized battle between Britney Spears and those in charge of her conservatorship

  • The court documents filed Thursday maintained there are "no actual grounds for suspending or removing Mr. Spears as the Conservator of the Estate" despite his agreement to step aside

  • Britney's lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, has not yet filed papers seeking to end the conservatorship

The news was first reported by TMZ on Thursday. 

According to court documents obtained by multiple news outlets, including CNN, Mr. Spears maintained there are "no actual grounds for suspending or removing Mr. Spears as the Conservator of the Estate," adding that it is "highly debatable whether a change in conservator at this time would be in Ms. Spears' best interests.” 

"Nevertheless, even as Mr. Spears is the unremitting target of unjustified attacks, he does not believe that a public battle with his daughter over his continuing service as her conservator would be in her best interests," the documents say in part. "So even though he must contest this unjustified Petition for his removal, Mr. Spears intends to work with the Court and his daughter's new attorney to prepare for an orderly transition to a new conservator."

The move comes after months of a highly publicized battle between Britney Spears and those in charge of her conservatorship. In several bombshell hearings this summer, the “Circus” singer decried the 13-year-long, court-mandated arrangement as abusive and embarrassing. 

She also made clear she wanted her father out as head of her estate, adding that she hopes to charge him with conservatorship abuse.

In late July, Britney Spears’ Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart filed a petition to replace her father as financial conservator of his daughter’s estate, instead proposing Jason Rubin, a certified public accountant (CPA) specializing in forensic accounting, to take over. 

The documents did not expressly move to dissolve the conservatorship, but did say that Britney Spears wanted to “petition to remove James Spears as the conservator of the Estate,” although the next hearing was set to be held in late September. 

Rosengart had instead repeatedly asked Jamie Spears to step down from his position voluntarily, which he had refused to do until Thursday. 

"Even though he must contest this unjustified petition for his removal, Mr. Spears intends to work with the court and his daughter's new attorney to prepare for an orderly transition to a new conservator," Jamie Spears said in the new court documents. "As the court has likely surmised, before Ms. Spears' new attorney arrived, Mr. Spears had already been working on such a transition with Ms. Spears' former court-appointed counsel, Sam Ingham."

In response to Spears' decision to step aside, Rosengart issued a statement saying: "We are pleased that Mr. Spears and his lawyer have today conceded in a filing that he must be removed. It is vindication for Britney. We are disappointed, however, by their ongoing shameful and reprehensible attacks on Ms. Spears and others.

"We look forward to continuing our vigorous investigation into the conduct of Mr. Spears, and others, over the past 13 years, while he reaped millions of dollars from his daughter's estate, and I look forward to taking Mr. Spears' sworn deposition in the near future,” Rosengart added.

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