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Jul. 14, 2021

Why won’t the court free Britney?

The Britney scenario is an embarrassment to the California justice system. One can only hope that those who are involved with it take notice and learn from it.

Timothy D. Reuben

Reuben Mediation

Tim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.

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Stephanie I. Blum

Partner
Reuben Raucher & Blum

Email: sblum@rrbattorneys.com

Blum is a partner at Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles. A Certified Family Law Specialist with over 25 years of experience, her expertise includes domestic violence restraining order matters, complex property division and custody disputes.

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On June 23, during a hearing challenging the continuance of her years-long conservatorship, pop singer Britney Spears said, “I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby ... I deserve to have a life. ... I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so.”

Here are the objective facts: An immensely talented 39-year-old woman and mother of t...

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