Judge Terminates Britney Spears Conservatorship

Jamie Spears (L), father of Britney Spears, as he leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2012, and Britney Spears at the Clive Davis and The Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 11, 2017. AP Photo

A judge granted approval to terminate the conservatorship that has largely managed Britney Spears’s medical, financial, and personal decisions for nearly 14 years.

At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, Judge Brenda Penny dissolved the legal arrangement.