Britney Spears lawyer is working “aggressively and swiftly” to remove Jamie Spears as Tory

Britney Spears’ new lawyer announced today that he is “aggressively” trying to oust the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, from the guardianship that has controlled his life for 13 years.

“My law firm and I are moving aggressively and quickly towards eliminating Jamie Spears …” said Mathew Rosengart in Los Angeles Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles.

He thanked Britney, 39, “for her courage and strength” and he also thanked his fans for their “overwhelming support”, eliciting cheers from a group of his supporters who gathered outside to sing. and holding up “Free Britney” signs. .

Rosengart was speaking today after a court hearing where Jodi Montgomery, Britney’s temporary curator for her personal and non-financial affairs, asked Judge Brenda Penny to charge guardianship for additional security she has had to hire since that she has received several death threats. The security charge is approximately $ 1,800 per day.

The judge filed his claim until another hearing next Monday.

Last week, Britney lashed out in an Instagram post against the “people closest” to her who “hadn’t helped her in times of need.”

She didn’t give any names, saying “they know who they are.”

But in a tearful court appearance hours earlier, she told Judge Penny that she wanted her father, 69, to be accused of abusing the guardianship he had run since his very breakup. publicized in 2008.

“I would like to accuse my father of abuse of guardianship,” she told the court in an emotional tirade. “I want to file a complaint against my father today. I want an investigation on my father.

In a repeat of the explosive testimony she gave during her court appearance on June 23, she again described the trauma of her guardianship and claimed that her father and others involved in the guardianship had her. threatened,

“There shouldn’t be any threat against me, ever. I have serious abandonment issues, ”said the singer, who added that her car keys, hair vitamins and coffee were confiscated.

Fighting back tears, she told Judge Penny, “Ma’am, this is not abuse, this is just cruelty f ******”. Excuse my language but it’s the truth.

“I thought they were trying to kill me. If it’s not abuse, I don’t know what it is.

Spears – who has two sons, Sean, 15, and Jayden, 14, from her ex-husband, Kevin Federline – called for her father to be banned from running her life and she told the court she wanted the guardianship is terminated without it being necessary. for a medical evaluation.

But she said her priority was to oust her father from his role while allowing co-curator Jodi Montgomery – who takes care of the star’s personal needs rather than financial ones – to stay on until the end of the season. guardianship.

“My dad is due to be retired today and I’ll be happy Jodi helps me out,” she said. “I am here to file a complaint. I am angry and will go there.

At last week’s hearing, Judge Penny accepted Britney’s wish to choose her own lawyer, Mathew Rosengart. Prior to that, she had been represented by a court-appointed lawyer, Samuel Ingham, who resigned after the Spears court appearance on June 23.

Rosengart told the court last Wednesday that he would file documents in the coming weeks to end the guardianship and at an impromptu press conference on the steps of the courthouse he asked Jamie to voluntarily step aside from his position as curator.

“We will act quickly and aggressively for his dismissal,” he said. “The question remains, why is he involved? He should resign voluntarily because it is in the best interests of the Conservative.

Rosengart praised Britney’s “courage, passion and humanity” for speaking out in court and called her testimony “clear, lucid, powerful and compelling.”

“My firm and I are going to take a top-down look at what has happened over the past decade,” said the senior lawyer who added that Spears “has a right to due process, which includes the right to due process. competent lawyer “.

Britney choosing her own lawyer presents a challenge because under the terms of the guardianship she is prevented from signing legally binding contracts without her father’s permission.

Rosengart objected to this, saying Jamie shouldn’t have the power to reject her choice of lawyer – given that her lawyer is representing her in a case against Jamie himself!

The 58-year-old former federal prosecutor is highly respected in Los Angeles where his Hollywood clients include Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck and his brother Casey, director Michael Mann and actor / director Sean Penn – who in an interview with the New York Times, described Rosengart as “tough as nails with a big brain and bigger principles.”