Republican Nancy Mace and Democrat Charlie Crist have announced new legislation to #FreeBritney. The Free Britney Act, named after Britney Spears’s yearslong crusade to replace her father Jamie as her conservator, would allow conservatees — that is, adults deemed sufficiently incapacitated that the courts grant legal control over their person to a third party in an arrangement called a conservatorship — to replace their conservators with federally funded, court-appointed public employees.
“This legislation allows all Americans to retain their right to petition a judge to replace a private guardian or conservator with a public guardian — an individual with no legal entanglements, no perverse incentives, and no conflicts of interest,” Mace told the Washington Examiner. “The right to petition a judge is really at the heart of this piece of legislation.”
