Britney Spears custody agreement - seems wrong.

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Is it just because she is their mum that this seems wrong? According to BBC News, the agreement is;

KF gets the kids
Britney gives him $250,000 as a one off payment, and then $20,000 a month.

This seems very harsh to me!

why?
would it be harsh if he had the money and she got the kids?

How is that wrong? It would be no different if it was the father with her money etc.

I bet you ANYTHING if she had NO MONEY he would not be so keen to have custody. He's a shithead by the sound of it but is rarely judged for it. She was/is clearly depressed and didn't seem in a fit state to look after them but what do I know? I don't know what happened to put her in that position. Her mother can't have helped by the sound of it.

hopefully the children will have some stability now. not harsh at all

So I don't necessarily tihnk it's wrong, just that Federline doesn't strike me as highly responsible. But he probably is less mad than Britney atm.

If she had no money she probably wouldn't have gotten in the crap situation in the first place Not a lot of point in the what ifs

I'm with WWW on this

federline doesn't have a great track record but one would hope he'd got his shit together by now

Didn't his EX Shar Jackson (think thats her name) say in a magazine once that for his faults he is a really good dad?
If that's the case wouldn't they be better off with him than Britney? He might be a shit husband (we don't know this) and a bit of a player (we don't know this either ) but at least the children have one stable parent.

The money seems a reasonable amount to me, boot on the other foot and all that, they are wealthy people that live expensive lives, in wealthy areas, that seems a reasonble amount if she's worth millions of dollars

really good dad seems a bit excessive

he did leave her (for britney) when she was pregnant, no?

It all sounds like a complete nightmare. I doubt that she is in a good state to have custody at the moment. So who else is there? On the other hand, he is a complete twunt and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he hadn't engineered this whole thing to get a load of money and fame out of it. I think that she's been throroughly set up.
Place your bets now on how long it will take before the two children are completely messed up and on drugs.

think without the money factor, in the UK any child exposed to such parenting might be fostered for a while [could be wrong emoticon]

A really good dad is not one that walks out on his child and a pregnant partner because he wants to play happy familys with some trailer trash that had a massive bank account.
Nither of them should have ever had children

agree with WWW. He's doing it for the money.Feel desperately sorry for her and she has been let down by everybody involved.

loads of people made money out of her when she was very young, and as soon as she got into trouble it seems like they didn't want to know.

I feel sorry for het TBH, with the people she had/has around her she has no chance

It's exactly the kind of order that is mad aevery day in English courts except that usually it's the woman who keeps the kids.

don't hear much of an outcry about that

I think my feeling is like www's - that he wants the kids so that he can get his hands on Britney's money.

I know it's no different to if a woman gets to keep the kids and the dad pays maintenance, but I also can't imagine that the money she pays KF will go on the kids - what can you spend £20,000 a month on for kids? Nice shoes? In which case she is being forced to subsidise his lifestyle, as well as losing her kids.

And I also think Britney has been let down by her family and friends BIG TIME. I think a lot of this could have been avoided if they had recognised her depression in time and helped her.

How could he have been given custody when he's already abandoned previous kids? Will he abandon these if Britney's money runs out?

Who said he 'abandoned' his kids? Certainly they don't live with him fulltime, but I assume that's because his ex is not off her head and she wanted to keep the children.
Britney was clearly, for quite a while, totally unable to be a parent to the children.

I'm not remotely jealous of her. But she was clearly on drugs and pretty unhinged for a long while, and the kids weren't really safe with her. What was supposed to happen to them? Unlike their father, she didn't even turn up to the court hearings to determine residence because she was so crazy. From recent pictures she seems more stable now.
Yes, he split with his ex, which isn't particularly nice behaviour, but when women leave their partners they tend to keep the kids, and men don't, which isn't always their idea. He certainly couldn't take a foetus with him, even if he'd wanted to!

Do you know what I don't even think she was probably that bad. We all been a bit "emotional" at times in our lives but fortunately not usually in the public eye. I seem to remember between the ages of 27 and 30 going a bit nuts and doing all kinds of ridiculous, risky behaviours. Luckily I didn't have kids at that point.

She had an abnormal childhood with what seem to be incredibly controlling parents, then married a dickhead who seems only to have wanted her money and the prestige that went with being with her and then had two kids in unbelievably quick succession. There was always going to be some fallout from all of that. KF is laughing all the way to the bloody bank isn't he? Who can say whether things weren't exaggerated by his camp in order to get the kids and thus secure his financial future. I think she had some classic teenage rebellion about 5 years later than most people do due to her highly controlled and restricted up bringing and sadly her kids are the ones suffering from the behaviour of selfish adults around her who only see her as a cash cow.