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EPISODE · Jul 15, 2021 · 20 MIN

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

from This Matters · host Toronto Star

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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