Britney Spears is ‘at peace’ with custody deal

An attorney for Britney Spears said the performer was “at peace” with a custody agreement finalized Friday that leaves her two sons in the custody of her ex-husband while expanding her visitation rights.

“She couldn’t be happier about it, actually,” said her attorney, Laura Wasser. “She’s going to see her kids more.”

Under the terms of the deal approved by Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, Spears will increase child support payments to former backup dancer Kevin Federline by $5,000 a month. Spears’ monthly child support payments will now total $20,000 a month.

She will also pay his $250,000 legal bill from lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan.

The agreement also calls for Spears to have the children, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, for a second overnight visit each week beginning in the fall.

She has monitored visits with the toddlers three days and one night each week.

Spears, 26, lost custody of the boys last year after her behavior became erratic.

In January, after the singer was hospitalized for psychiatric problems, a court appointed her father, Jamie, conservator of her and her estate.

Kaplan did not return a call seeking comment, but he told City News Service, “It’s a great relief [for Kevin] to have this two-year ordeal behind him.”

The agreement averts a trial scheduled for August.

Wasser said negotiations concerned money and visitation rights but not Federline’s custody of the children.

“We would never have sought a modification of legal or physical custody while she’s under the conservatorship,” Wasser said.

Attorneys for Spears and her father are due in court July 31 to discuss continuing the conservatorship.

 harriet.ryan@latimes.com