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Los Angeles Superior Court judge Brenda Penny
said the singer's father and a newly-appointed financial trust
company must work together to develop an investment plan that
will benefit Spears.
Spears has made clear in the past year that she no longer wants
her father Jamie involved in her affairs, but the judge in
December extended his conservatorship until September 2021.
Jamie Spears was appointed conservator in 2008 after the singer
was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment.
Thursday's hearing, which Spears did not attend in person,
followed the broadcast of a television documentary last week
that brought new scrutiny to the case and to the
widely-publicized breakdown of the former teen phenomenon.
On social media, fans and celebrities have been expressing
support for Spears, now 39, with the hashtags #We'reSorryBritney
and #FreeBritney.
Glamour magazine on Monday issued an apology, saying "We are all
to blame for what happened to Britney Spears - we may not have
caused her downfall, but we funded it."
Spears later revived her career but she pulled out of a Las
Vegas concert residency in 2019 and briefly entered a mental
health facility.
Outside the courthouse on Thursday, a handful of fans from the
small but vocal #FreeBritney campaign called for the
conservatorship to end.
Supporters of the campaign believe Spears is being kept prisoner
and that she is sending cryptic signals begging to be freed
through her social media accounts, which usually consist of
selfies or her dancing at home.
"I want her to be independent. I want her to be able to live her
life on her own terms. That's why we're here. That's why I'm
here," said 28 year-old Dustin Strand.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Rollo Ross, Editing by Rosalba
O'Brien)
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