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By Waqas Khuram January 15, 2026
Please join me for the First Annual Guardianship and Conservatorship Abuse Awareness Day: February 1, 2021! As most of you know, I have been pushing back against the untoward policies and practices of the local probate courts for years. Little did I know that the talented, sweet and beautiful Britney Jean Spears was conserved on February 1, 2008 through the denial of her civil right to notice and counsel. We are honored to feature conversations with former NFL Player Erik Kramer, Kerri Kasem, the daughter of radio legend Casey Kasem, and of course, the wonderful young people of the #FreeBritney movement. I look forward to seeing you at the webinar! It will be worth it! Love, Lisa
By Waqas Khuram January 15, 2026
Print Coverage iNews | 7-14-21 Britney Spears conservatorship: #FreeBritney activists on the latest court hearing outcome and the future However, LA lawyer Lisa MacCarley says that Wednesday’s outcome makes all the difference. “Now that Ms. Spears will no longer have a ‘court-appointed lawyer” who controls the court case and narrative,” she says, “the fans who love her can be assured that she will be free from the constraints of the conservatorship relatively quickly.” The New Yorker | 7-3-21 Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare Lisa MacCarley, an estate-and-probate lawyer in Los Angeles who has become something of a “mascot,” as she put it, for the #FreeBritney movement, describes the city’s probate-court system as plagued by cronyism, with judges appointing advocates from a small list of favored lawyers. [Probate lawyer and Spears’s former conservator] Ingham, she said, “has made a lot of money bullshitting people.” The Independent | 6-24-21 How #FreeBritney actually started Wu says even after Britney is freed, they will “100 per cent” continue fighting for the victims of conservatorship abuse. For lawyer and activist Lisa MacCarley ,that is music to her ears. MacCarley has been a probate and conservatorship attorney since 1993 and runs a charity, Bettys’ Hope , which aims to ensure that a conservatee doesn’t lose their right to see their family. Wu contacted her last Summer about Spears. A few weeks later, MacCarley found herself walking up to a #FreeBritney rally in front of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, armed with books and case documents. When she finally met Wu, he handed her a pink megaphone. “I think I’ve had 10 years of anger and frustration and sadness, I just kind of belted out what I felt was wrong,” MacCarley says. Fans of Spears, wearing #FreeBritney T-shirts and holding protest posters, broke out in applause. “I hit a chord,” she says. “[I] acknowledged that they were right and that they were righteous, which they are.” “What they did was add legitimacy to something that has been a burden on me emotionally and professionally for a decade,” she says. “All these years I’ve been praying for a miracle,” MacCarley says. “The #FreeBritney movement is my miracle.” Vanity Fair | 11-12-20 How Britney Spears Is Fighting Her Father for Legal Control of Her Estate “It does strike us, in the legal profession, as strange,” says Lisa MacCarley, an estate planning and probate attorney based in California, of Spears’s conservatorship. … “Even up in Sacramento when I talk to legislators, they say, what’s going on? Nobody understands it.” “To me, it’s just another example of the dysfunction of the Los Angeles and for that matter, Orange County, probate court,” she said. “That’s why I got involved. Because we’re seeing families being traumatized, exploited, abused by a system that is supposed to protect families and their loved ones.” Audio Coverage What Britney Spears Teaches Us About Conservatorships In America
By Waqas Khuram December 22, 2025
These are the thoughts of Lisa MacCarley, Attorney at Law. They are meant to be helpful guides and do not represent or act as legal advice. You should consult a legal professional before taking any actions based on these answers.
By raymond November 27, 2023
On July 22, 2020, I attended a #FreeBritney rally for the first time. Kevin Wu had asked me to attend in order to increase attendance, and I showed up to support him. To be honest, I had no idea what happened to Britney Jean Spears in February, 2008. Tess Barker and Babs Gray of Britney’s Gram came over to introduce themselves and handed me a few documents from the file. This would be the first time I had learned that Britney had attempted to retain an attorney named Adam Streisand.