Mathew Rosengart, the attorney who has been representingBritney Spearsin her fight to end her conservatorship, is speaking out after his client’s “monumental” victory in court.
Spears, 39,had her conservatorship terminatedafter 13 years in a court hearing on Friday, and in a statement to reporters gathered outside the courthouse afterwards, Rosengart called it a “monumental day” for the pop star.
“What’s next for Britney is up to one person — and this is the first time we can say this in a decade. It’s up to Britney,” he said. “Britney, as of today, is a free woman.”
“I thank her for her courage and poise and power and for our relationship,” he added.
Although Rosengart spoke in harsh terms about the Spears family, including Britney’s father Jamie, who was suspended as her estate conservator in September, he told reporters that it was “up to my client Britney” whether there would be a lawsuit.
Rosengart, who has represented Spears since July,first filed court documentsto move forward in asking Judge Brenda Penny to end the pop star’s conservatorship in September, weeks after Spears' father and then-estate conservatorJamie did the same.
In the filing, Rosengart claimed that Britney’s conservatorship no longer served a purpose and needed to be terminated immediately, which echoed Jamie’s filing.
Britney Spears.Ethan Miller/Getty
After Jamie was officially suspended on Sept. 29,Spears thanked Rosengart on Instagram, writing: “Thankfully I found an amazing attorney Mathew Rosengart who has helped change my life!!!!”
Weeks later, Rosengartfiled additional court documentsaccusing Jamie of having ulterior motives after he unexpectedly reversed his stance in September on the necessity of Britney’s conservatorship.
Jamie’s lawyer did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Britney Spears, Mathew Rosengart.Kevin Mazur/WireImage; Todd Williamson/Getty
“After more than a decade, the time has come for Ms. Spears’s freedom,” Rosengart said in the documents. “Ms. Spears has made her wishes known about ending the conservatorship she has endured for so long and she has pleaded with this Court to ‘let her have her life back,’ without an evaluation, recently attending two Court hearings and asking this Court directly to end the conservatorship. It is respectfully submitted — with the consent of all parties — that the time has come.”
For his part, Jamie has defended his role as the conservator of Britney’s estate and hasinsisted that he only ever had his daughter’s best interest at heart.
source: people.com
