The recent attention on conservatorships was heightened last fall, when at Ingham’s request, the judge appointed Bessemer Trust to act as co-conservator along with her father. That order has yet to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new law in California will require people who have entered into a conservatorship over someone else to submit a plan for the person's care and estate management to the conservatee, their lawyer, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britney Spears’ nearly 14-year-long conservatorship ended Friday. But this isn't the end of the shady world of probate courts. I’m intimately aware of this system myself, having been conserved for ...

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