By Blessing Udeobasi
Amid the ongoing suit between American singer, Britney Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, the latter has accused the former of avoiding to testify before the court and filed paperwork to compel her to do so.
This was disclosed by Jamie’s lawyers according to new court documents obtained by ET Online where they claim that the singer is not only avoiding a deposition but stands to make a reported $15 million from an upcoming tell-all book about her conservatorship where she is revealing things that Jamie’s lawyers claim Britney is refusing to talk about in court.
Jamie’s motion to compel a deposition from his daughter comes just a month after Britney’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, filed a motion to compel a deposition from him.
In the docs, Britney’s lawyer claims that Jamie’s deposition was initially noticed on Oct. 20, and said that his client’s father has since been issued two subsequent notices, but hasn’t agreed to “numerous” proposed dates or offered any potential dates of his own.
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In the new documents, according to Jamie’s lawyers, “Britney’s counsel has no legitimate legal basis to object to Britney’s deposition,” adding that the 40-year-old singer has testified in court previously in this case and she “continues to make public social media posts containing incendiary allegations of various factual matters.”
“Britney’s own publicly-posted Instagram posts aimed at Jamie and soon to be publicly-published book directly contradict Britney’s counsel’s claim that Britney has no admissible evidence and that her testimony is not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence,” Jamie’s legal team argued.
