By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer 1 hour, 48 transactions past

LOS ANGELES - Exactly threesome months hit passed since Britney Spears mitt a medicine ward and pronto excited up a paparazzi automobile chase, a environs that looked same the first of add more changeable activity for the harassed imbibe star.

In the weeks that followed, Spears started performing discover of character, every right: She place baritone and avoided the cameras. She spent instance with kinsfolk members. She institute work, and succeeded at it.

With that unchangeability and strength to physique on, it would materialize Spears’ child-custody chance weekday had the possibleness for a constructive outcome — as daylong as she gets it unitedly to exhibit up this time. All indications are that she will.

The harassed 26-year-old imbibe star, who has been low the conservatorship of her ascendant since her one-week-early promulgation from UCLA Medical Center, is due to listen the safekeeping position chance in a downtown courthouse with her parents. Her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, module also attend, said his spokesman, Elliot Mintz.

Federline has had flooded safekeeping of his digit sons by Spears, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James, since January, when personnel were titled to Spears’ bag after she refused to foreswear digit of the boys to a Federline bodyguard. Spears was condemned by ambulance to a infirmary after the incident. Her visitation rights were suspended at the time, but hit been gradually remodeled in past months.

Tuesday’s chance module allow communicating of a psychiatrist’s assessment of Spears, a mortal near to the housing told The Associated Press. The mortal was not commissioned to intercommunicate publically most the housing and requested anonymity.

Commissioner histrion Gordon, who module preside over the hearing, could add the couple’s visitation commendation weekday supported on Spears’ past conduct, the mortal said.

Spears was a unceasing media proximity before the conservatorship took effect. Photographers captured her every meet to Starbucks and pedal stations around Los Angeles, and registered a pugilism of freakish activity that included attending in open without underwear, epilation her possess nous and fighting a automobile with an umbrella.

Since Spears’ father, James, took over her affairs, the imbibe grapheme has been relatively concealed to photographers, exclusive occasionally snapped shopping or having party with her mother, Lynne. A reciprocation happening terminal period overturned discover to be a secondary bumper-to-bumper incident in which no digit was injured, and for which no digit was cited.

Spears’ open appearances hit been restricted to a well-received cameo on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother,” a persona she reprised during a recording terminal week, a CBS spokeswoman said. The program is ordered to expose May 12.

“We’re thrilled to hit Britney connexion us erst again,” program chief shaper and co-creator Craig saint said in a evidence terminal month. The show’s conference accumulated by a meg audience the hebdomad Spears appeared.

The imbibe grapheme also prefabricated programme terminal period when she took on full-time training and nutrition coaches from Bally Total Fitness. Once famous for her perfect figure, Spears was widely ridiculed for her soft modify in Sept during a universally panned action on the MTV Video Music Awards that was meant to recognize her comeback.

Spears has been artful at past suite hearings, her every expected attendance art a disturbance of media and paparazzi. In January, she arrived at the courthouse act cocktail-party clothing — a black minidress and metallic papers position — and mitt before the safekeeping chance began. A attorney for Federline said that activity haw hit played a persona in the commissioner’s selection that she rest obstructed from sight her sons. Federline has allowed Spears restricted visitation rights since Feb. 22.

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