Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Brits lawyers will ask for visitation rights.


As lawyers for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline head into the courtroom Tuesday morning, they'll be coming armed to discuss a number of topics — from visitation rights to gag orders to announcing a new attorney for Britney.

Primary among these will be the likely request by Brit's side that the singer, who for now only has the right to speak to her boys, Sean Preston, 2, and one-year-old Jayden James, over the phone, be allowed to spend some supervised time with them.

"She has regular conversations with the boys," a source close to the Spears family confirms to OK!. "But obviously since they're so young, there's only so much connecting you can do over the phone."

However, sources tell OK! that it's unlikely the Commissioner will grant any change in the current visitation privileges until a complete psychological evaluation is completed.

Next up on the day's legal menu is the gag order that OK! reported about over the weekend. This was actually something Brit's legal team had requested be put in place in late 2007, but is only now coming up on the agenda. If granted, it would bar everyone involved in the case from speaking publicly about the matter.

But perhaps the most crucial issue to come before the court today would be the changing of Brit's legal guard. Last week, her current reps from Trope & Trope filed another request with the court to be removed immediately from the case. Many insiders believe that their replacement will be named during today's hearing. And while some say Brit's original attorney Laura Wasser will return to the fray, OK!'s sources are saying the most likely replacement is divorce-attorney-to-the-stars Stacy Phillips.

Source: OK! Magazine

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