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Jami Ganz

Britney Spears refuses to pay $660K in mom Lynne’s attorney fees

Britney Spears isn’t giving more.

The “Gimme More” singer, 40, refuses to be mom Lynne’s cash cow any longer as the latter is looking for her daughter to cover attorney fees connected to the pop star’s conservatorship battle, according to an opposition filed Tuesday by Britney Spears and obtained by E! News.

The petition for Spears to cover $660,000 in fees was filed in November when her mother wanted to see what the firm she hired in 2019, Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison LLC, “could do to get involved to help Britney free herself from what she saw as a very controlling existence,” the documents show.

Lynne’s petition has “not authority at all to support the conclusion that a conservatorship estate can be held financially responsible for the attorney’s fees of a third party,” which she would be considered, according to those new documents.

Rather, “There is no legal basis for placing Britney Spears in the middle of” the issue, according to the documents, in which Spears’ legal team notes that she “has ford decades been her family’s sole breadwinner, supporting her entire family.”

That monetary support extends to paying more than $1.7 million for her mother’s home and expenses, according to E! News.

Spears’ conservatorship was finally terminated in November after nearly 13 years, and though it was widely known to be controlled by dad Jamie, the “Stronger” singer said that month that her mother had been the one to suggest the oppressive arrangement.

“I will never get those years back,” Spears wrote in November. “She secretly ruined my life.”

Spears last week took to Instagram to slam Lynne, by comparing her to the estranged mother of her “Crossroads” character.

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