A Los Angeles judge finally ruled in Briney's favor, ending the conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years. On November 12, 2021, Judge Brenda Penny declared that the "arrangement is no longer required." Spears, now 39, was first put under a temporary psychiatric hold in February 2008. She was 26 at the time. Her father and an attorney received a temporary conservatorship at that time, which was later made permanent in October of that year. While the legal arra