Britney Spears' custody modified

By Harriet Ryan

June 25, 2008 12 AM PT

Britney Spears and her ex-husband agreed to a modified custody arrangement for their two sons during a closed-door hearing Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Commissioner Scott Gordon approved an unspecified change to the visitation schedule for the boys after questioning Spears, 26, and Kevin Federline, who now has custody of the children, according to a court spokesman. The judge also heard from a parenting coach, Lisa Hacker.

Gordon stripped Spears of custody last year, citing evidence of drug and alcohol abuse, but she regained visitation rights in February. The troubled singer and her estate are under the control of a temporary conservatorship since her January hospitalization for psychiatric problems.

At the hearing, Spears said she had rehired attorney Laura Wasser, who resigned as her divorce lawyer last year.

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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