Britney Spears' Mother Asks For $660K To Pay Legal Fees In Conservatorship Battle

Lynne Spears, 66, mother of Britney Spears, 39, has asked for Britney’s legal team to pay for her attorneys’ fees, which amounts to more than $660 thousand.

Lynne’s attorneys claim that because of her involvement in the legal process, Britney’s quality of life improved under the conservatorship. They also claim that she played a big role in getting Britney’s father, Jamie Spears, suspended as conservator, according to Entertainment Tonight.

The documents also shed further light on the abuse the “Criminal” singer was subjected to under the conservatorship controlled by Jamie. Jamie has since shown support for the end of the conservatorship, but Britney’s attorney Mathew Rosengart claims he could have ulterior motives after the abuse he put his daughter through was revealed to the public, according to People.

This comes after a since-deleted Instagram post by the “Toxic” singer, where she claimed that her mother was the mastermind behind the conservatorship that ruined her life.

“My dad [Jamie] may have started the conservatorship 13 years ago … but what people don’t know is that my mom is the one who gave him the idea,” Britney wrote in the caption. “She secretly ruined my life . . . my dad is not smart enough to ever think of a conservatorship.”

In a court filing for fees Monday, attorneys for Lynne Spears claim she reached out to the legal team to help her daughter “free herself from what she saw as a very controlling existence.”

The attorneys for Lynne Spears at Jones Swanson said that the fees amount to $840 thousand, but that they will apply a 40% discount and accept $504 thousand. Attorneys at Ginzburg and Bronshteyn also requested just under $147 thousand. These fees will be discussed at Dec. 8 court hearing following the Nov. 12 hearing where Judge Brenda Penny will deliberate finally ending Britney’s conservatorship.

“Lynne discussed joining the conservatorship as an interested party extensively with Britney and Britney enthusiastically agreed, and indeed asked her mother to join in the case in any capacity that would help to end her nightmare and the crisis she was enduring,” the document alleges, contradicting Britney’s Instagram.