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Variety reports:

A judge has shot down Britney Spears’ request to have her father removed from her conservatorship — at least for now.

New court documents that were filed by the Los Angeles Superior Court show that the judge has denied a months-old request by Spears’ attorney, Samuel Ingham III, to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator.

These documents are not in direct response to last week’s hearing, where Spears gave an explosive testimony; though Spears delivered a powerful 24-minute statement, the judge cannot make any ruling based on what she said as she still has yet to file a petition to terminate her conservatorship.

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