Britney Spears & Kevin Federline settle custody case
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have reached a settlement in their long custody case.
According to the agreement signed by all parties, Federline gets sole legal and physical custody of sons Sean Preston and Jayden James and Spears will have visitation rights.
“The case has been settled,” Federline’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan said. “The court still has to approve it. ” Both parties are due in court Friday morning.
The case had been set to go to trial next month but all had been hoping to settle up beforehand. If Britney did goe to trial, it would have been a big gamble, she could have won more time with her kids, or she could lose what’s already in place, due to her conservatorship situation.
Spears has had monitored visitation with her sons twice a week with one overnight. In January, after a forced hospitalization at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spears lost all visitation rights with her kids until the following month. Spears will likely get increased visitation as time goes on as long as her health and behavior continue to warrant it. For now, Brit will get an additional overnight by year’s end, barring any setbacks.
Kaplan told E! News: “As of this evening there is a fully executed deal memo…All the issues that would have been addressed at trial have been settled. Can’t speak to the exact terms of the deal. Orders in place…will stay in place.”
But although this is theoretically good news for Federline, Kaplan maintains:
“Kevins was not out to get custody. Kevins goal was to set up some kind of template so the mother of his children can co-parent,” Kaplan said.
“He said I need to have Britney to be involved in the co-parenting of the kids but I need there to be a structure.”
But this is the structure he got and “Kevin is absolutely delighted,” Kaplan continued.
A court commissioner is scheduled to review whether the make the conservatorship permanent at the end of this month. If the arrangement were to end, the settlement order does anticipate what happens if the conservatorship is ended, though no details were divulged.
Update: Settling out of court turned out to be a big wind fall for K-Fed and his lawyer. Kevin gets $20,000 a month in child support. He used to get $15,000 a month. K-Fed’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan will also get $250,000 from the bank of Britney for his work on the custody case.
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I wish her kids get a settled “home” soon. Its really a tough thing again for Brit.