CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. However improbable, this has become the summer we talk about conservatorship. As the latest developments in Britney Spears’ 13-year ...

A Los Angeles Times investigation in 2005 exposed deep flaws in California’s probate conservatorship system, which is meant to protect adults who cannot adequately see to their own needs or manage ...

Assemblyman Brian Maienschein introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at reforming state conservatorship laws to limit abuses of the system and provide alternatives for conservatees. Maienschein, D-San ...

Britney Spears performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in New York. The Spears conversatorship case has raised awareness for the broader overhaul ...

Britney Spears scored the court victory of a lifetime on Friday when she, along with the world, saw her conservatorship officially end after nearly 14 years. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge ...

Over the past year, questions about the necessity of the conservatorship of Ms. Britney Spears have prompted speculation regarding the unusual aspects of this case. Ms. Spears has been under a ...

A landmark reform of California’s flawed probate system, spotlighted by the troubled Britney Spears case, is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1663, sailed unanimously ...

Britney Spears, 39, is fighting to end her 13 year long conservatorship — and ‘Free Britney’ movement lawyer Lisa MacCarley says an evaluation “isn’t necessary” for the pop star to move forward.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark probate reform bill that will make it more difficult to place someone into a court-ordered conservatorship, such as the arrangement that for years prevented ...

The California Supreme Court affirmed a judgment. The court held that counsel for a proposed conservatee may waive the proposed conservatee’s attendance at a hearing on a petition to establish a ...

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