February 25, 2008

Britney Spears Regains Visitation Rights With Kids

By Jem Aswad (MTV.com)

Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline has agreed to reinstate her visitation rights with their two sons, his lawyer said in a statement on Friday, according to The Associated Press.

Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said in a statement the former couple has agreed to a modification of a court order that had stripped Spears of her visitation rights, AP reported. The statement did not provide more details, but Kaplan told People.com on Friday that Spears would be allowed to see her sons "soon, very soon."

A court commissioner gave Federline sole physical and legal custody of their two sons and suspended the pop star's visitation rights on January 4.

Spears has not seen her sons Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2, since the first of her two hospitalizations in a psychiatric ward this year. She made two unsuccessful attempts to regain visitation rights in recent weeks.

Spears and her estate were placed under a temporary conservatorship after she was hospitalized on January 31.

The singer's tumultuous life in recent years has stabilized somewhat in recent weeks, since her parents took greater control over her affairs. They said last month that they believed her life to be at risk.