Britney Spears will have sons Sean Preston and Jayden James by her side to open presents under the Christmas Tree, as a holiday visitation schedule was agreed on Monday by lawyers for her and her former husband.

Mark Vincent Kaplan, lawyer for Kevin Federline, and Anne Kiley, representing pop singer Britney Spears, met Monday in a closed-door court hearing in Los Angeles.

“There was extensive discussion and agreement on the visitation over the holiday period,” said Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini, as quoted by the New York Daily News. “It's different from the existing [custody] schedule.”

TMZ.com reports that the agreement reached was that Britney have her two boys on Christmas morning.

Under the current arrangement, Federline has full custody of the children, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, while the singer is allowed twice-weekly monitored access to her sons, including an overnight visit.

The boys spent the night before Thanksgiving with their mother and Thanksgiving Day with their father. People.com reports that during Thanksgiving, Britney took her sons to the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills and treated them with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She dropped them at their dad’s place later that afternoon.

Neither parent attended yesterday’s hearing. Kaplan said, “Kevin thinks it's absolutely appropriate that they both get to see the kids over the holidays.”

Britney and Federline married in 2004; their divorce became official on July 30, 2007, and a custody feud over their two little boys soon ensued.

During Monday’s hearing, an attorney for the singer asked Superior Court Commissioner Scott M. Gordon to keep court filings pertaining to the custody case away from county authorities.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services had requested access to the former couple's case file, but a lawyer for the singer said the department is a “large bureaucracy with thousands of employees,” hence the risk that details would leak out to the media.

Kaplan concurred, asking the court commissioner to only release relevant documents, should the court decide to turn files over to county authorities. An attorney for the department asked for the hearing to be closed, and Commissioner Gordon’s decision was not revealed.

The couple's next scheduled hearing is set for Jan. 23.