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While Britney Spears was releasing some much-needed tension and getting terribly excited over her first iPad, her new attorney, Mathew Rosengart, was hard at work fighting for her freedom.

Jamie Spears has been playing the role of his daughter’s estate conservator, controlling her life and money, for the past 13 years, but that might finally be coming to an end.

Rosengart filed new court documents requesting Jamie’s immediate suspension on Monday, which will be addressed at a September 29 court hearing.

The latest filing also refers back to Jamie’s previous response to their motion (from August 12) to remove him as estate conservator, wherein he asks for a sizeable payout in exchange for dropping his role.

Per AP News, Jamie wants around $2 million in payments before anything changes on his part.

Here’s more from People:

In his response, Jamie said he would be “willing to step down when the time is right” as long as there was an “orderly” transition of power and “a resolution of matters pending before the Court.”

Britney’s attorney said that these “quid pro quo preconditions” are “inappropriate and unacceptable”:

“Britney Spears will not be extorted,” the filing says.

“Mr. Spears’s blatant attempt to barter suspension and removal in exchange for approximately $2 million in payments, on top of the millions already reaped from Ms. Spears’s estate by Mr. Spears and his associates, is a non-starter.”

Rosengart (below) further makes the point that legal issues and money aside, if Jamie truly loves his daughter as he says in his response, then he should resign before he is suspended as it would be the “correct and decent thing to do.”

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Britney’s emotional June 23 testimony put a lot of blame on her father for all her misery over the years, calling the conservatorship “abusive”:

“I just want my life back,” she said. “I’m not here to be anyone’s slave.”

“This conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good,” she added, pleading for the court to end it. “I deserve to have a life.”

Britney’s mom, Lynne Spears, helped her by filing a petition to urge the court to allow her daughter to hire her own lawyer, claiming that Britney has a “fear and hatred” of Jamie.

Rosengart mentioned that Jamie had used “seven pages of his Response airing grievances” about Britney’s mom, his ex-wife:

“That Mr. Spears would use this solemn occasion to pick one more fight with his ex-wife (the mother of his daughter) speaks volumes.”

Indeed, Jamie’s response has shed light on exactly where his priorities are, and it certainly doesn’t seem like any of them are truly in his daughter’s best interest.

At least, according to Britney and her people.

[sources:apnews&people]