Britney Spears’ Conservatorship and the #FreeBritney Movement (Podcast)

In 2008, pop star Britney Spears was put under a court-sanctioned conservatorship. She was 26 years old at the time. That meant that other people (including her father) who had been named as a conservator were allowed to make decisions about her career and her money. The story has attracted so much attention that it has its own New York Times documentary and its own hashtag on Twitter, known as the #freeBritney movement. Recently, after 13 years of acting as a conservator, Britney Spears’ father finally agreed to step down from his position managing his daughter’s estate and career.

#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles.

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On this episode of the Taxgirl podcast, Kelly Phillips Erb and Alexandra “Sasha” Golden talk about conservatorships and why Britney Spears’ case has people so captivated. Golden received her undergraduate and law degrees from Boston College and has been practicing law in Massachusetts since 1994. Golden is a long-standing member of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and of the Probate and Solo and Small Firm sections of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Listen to the episode here.

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