ANOTHER COURT DATE SET FOR BRITNEY SPEARS
January 23, 2008
A court document first obtained by CelebTV.com shows the next custody hearing in the ongoing Britney Spears and Kevin Federline battle is set for Feb. 19.
Commissioner Scott Gordon did not budge on Spears' visitation rights on Wednesday at the L.A. County Courthouse, chosing not to reinstate the pop stars' monitored visits with her two sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, after she failed to appear in court.
Gordon called the Spears case at about 9:15 a.m., allowing her attorney, Anne Kiley, to go out and try to find her client. She appeared about 20 minutes later and Gordon called the matter again.
"Is your client present?" he asked Kiley.
"No, she's not," the lawyer replied.
"Is she going to be present?" the commissioner asked.
"I don't know," Kiley said.
The commissioner then said there were motions filed by both sides but he didn't indicate what they were.
Federline and his attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, were in the courtroom. Federline was sworn in as a witness and Kaplan asked that the courtroom be cleared of spectators and the press.
Spears arrived and left through a basement parking garage under the courthouse. She wore bright lipstick, sunglasses, gold platform shoes and a very short black cocktail dress with a ruffled hem.
