Britney Spears' Attorney Says Father Jamie Tried To Stop Her From Taking Hawaii Trip

The singer is trying to get her long-standing conservatorship dissolved.

Britney Spears’ father tried as recently as last month to prevent his daughter from spending her money the way she wanted to, according to a court document filed this week in a Los Angeles probate court. A legal arrangement known as a conservatorship has been in place for 13 years that gives Spears’ father, James “Jamie” Spears, control over the singer’s finances. According to a document filed Thursday, Jamie Spears has wielded that power in myriad ways that hurt his 39-year-old daughter ― such as trying to prevent her from taking a brief trip to Hawaii. The island vacation was to be taken several weeks after Britney’s first explosive and emotional remarks about her living situation, which she described as “abusive.” It required the singer to secure permission from her father, who disapproved “of the expenditure that would have come from his daughter’s own, hard-earned money.”