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Are conservatorships toxic? How Britney Spears’ cry for help forced a conversation in America

Author
Toronto Star
Published
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Episode Link
http://sites.libsyn.com/253478/are-conservatorships-toxic-how-britney-spears-cry-for-help-forced-a-conversation-in-america

Guest: Professor Nina Kohn, law professor at Syracuse University and expert on elder law and conservatorships

Britney Spears is fighting to free herself from a decade-long conservatorship under her father James and yesterday, she might have reached a milestone win when a California court judge agreed to let the pop star choose her own lawyer. Today on “This Matters,” we take a look at exactly how conservatorships work in the U.S. and whether a pop icon’s cry for help has started an important national conversation on the need for reform on conservatorship laws.

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