It's been nearly two months since Britney Spears hasn't seen
her two children, but the troubled singer will soon be able to visit them with
her ex-husband Kevin Federline's permission.
According to a statement released Friday by Federline's
lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan, the two sides agreed on modifying the court order
prohibiting Britney Spears from reaching the former couple's two sons, Sean
Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.
"We're pleased that ... the process of reinstating the
children's mother as a participant in their lives can commence," E! Online
quoted Kaplan as saying. However, he noted that a court commissioner is yet to
sign off on the deal and fax it over. When that happens, "Ms. Spears will
be seeing her boys very soon after that. But it's not a total done deal
yet," he added.
"I think that both sides agree that visitation would be
what's best for the children," Kaplan explained. "Certainly that's
something that she keenly desires to have start as soon as
possible."
All parties just want to "assure that there will be
continuity and stability. They say the devil's in the details, so that's what
everyone's working on right now."
Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Kaplan and Federline, credited
the development to Britney's father, Jamie Spears, whose temporary
conservatorship she's currently under.
"James Spears went a long way in terms of stabilizing
an environment that surrounded Britney which was wildly in flux," Mintz
said. "It's clear Britney is in a different place now than she was a week
or two ago."
Kaplan refused to give details regarding the terms of their
new agreement, but when asked if Britney's father as well as a psychiatrist
will also be attending the visitations, he said, "It will involve many
more specific terms to be met than just those two people in the room. We have
put lots of specific terms, conditions and protections in place to make
visitation happen in the safest way possible."
"None of this would not have happened if Jamie Spears had not been
involved. That's for sure. He gets a lot of credit for helping make this
happen. But we've worked very hard with the conservator lawyers, as well, to
make this all work," he added.
The 26-year-old singer, who lost the custody of her children
in October last year, has been stripped of her visitation rights
with the boys following an incident at her Los Angeles home on January 3
that resulted in the first of her two hospitalizations in a psychiatric
ward this year.
Following her second hospitalization in late January,
Britney's parents came to Los Angeles
to help her pull her life together. All the singer's assets have been placed
under temporary conservatorship of her father. Conservatorship is granted over
people who are deemed unable to care for themselves or their affairs.