Britney Spears Files for divorce

TMZ obtained the legal papers, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing "irreconcilable differences." In her petition, Spears asks for both legal and physical custody of the couple's two children, one-year old Sean Preston and two-month old Jayden James, with Federline getting reasonable visitation rights.

As for money, sources tell TMZ the couple, who married in Oct. 2004, has an iron-clad prenup. Not surprisingly, Spears is waiving her right to spousal support. She's also asking the judge to make each party pay their own attorney's fees.

Spears gives the date of separation as yesterday, the same day she flaunted her incredible revamped physique during a surprise appearance on David Letterman's show. Sources tell TMZ there was no single reason for Britney pulling the plug, rather, it was "a string of events."

Spears has hired powerhouse celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who has repped a number of celebs, including Angelina Jolie, Nick Lachey and Kiefer Sutherland. We're told Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe asked Wasser to rep both of them in their split, but Wasser declined for personal reasons.

Significantly, Britney lists the date of her marriage as October 6, 2004. There was an uproar around the time of the wedding because the highly publicized "secret" ceremony was held on Sept. 18th, leading many to question the validity of the ceremony. Now the divorce documents indicate that the lavish ceremony was not the official wedding.

 

Maybe because K-fed cheated on her? http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=5596249

 

hot damn!
I'm calling her up before Arlie (FChat Horsefly) does!

 

HAHAHAHAH i've always hated kevin butt-lickerline

 

You sort of knew that was coming.

 

too late....I'm guessing Fiedler is allready dialing her number....

 

OHHHH MY GOD, like really??? are you serious??? Like, I think all the 12 to 15 year olds will have good reason to look up to her again and wear clothes like her that would make any child molester happy.........

I think I will go on vacation to 'Get Mo' where they don't have TVs, because this will be all over the news and every stand up will not be able to resist jokes.....atleast this story will take away from less important things that flood our news now like, WAR!!!

 

Thank Gawd. Now, if only they'd both disappear.

 

Sweet! A bet's paying out! – oh, I mean I’m sorry the couple are going through difficulties.

 

We knew it was coming no matter WHO married her.

 

so the kids are going to grow up thinking their parents were the butt end of every joke........shame on you for saying your bet was paying off, imagine if the kids came to this site and used the search option.....you just added to there torment, the father can't sing defamed a ferrari, the mother is on youtube.com drunk....poor kids.....

 

Anyone could see this coming a mile away.

 

anybody want to wager a britney sex tape comes out in the next 3 months when this divorce gets messy

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/07/people.britneyspears.ap/index.html

 

You are both too late. I'm already in Kentwood, LA.

 

I had the same hopeful thought cross my mind when I heard the news.

 

This is funny. I actually had MORE people show up at Webster Hall to see me than K-Fed did.

But he got to boing Britney and drive a Ferrari. Life is so completely unfair!!

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By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:35 a.m. ET Nov 7, 2006

K-Fed’s New York City gig at Webster Hall wasn’t cancelled as some predicted — but it reportedly took some big-time begging on his part.

“They were going to cancel this concert, but he begged them to keep it on,” a Webster Hall bartender told Star. “He had to fight with them to keep this concert.” Only 300 people showed up at the club that holds 1,500.

K-Fed was scheduled to go on at 7 pm, but the crowd was so sparse that the aspiring rapper waited for three hours in hopes that more fans would appear.
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“He was holding things up because there weren’t enough fans,” the bartender told the tab. “It was a bad idea — he shouldn’t have neglected the fans who were there.”

Federline’s performance has been described as “mercifully short.” Britney Spears’s hubby only rapped for about half an hour and, reports one eyewitness, “seemed really confused about how to act on stage. He would pace from one side of the stage to the other, just saying things like, ‘Hey’ thirty times in a row or ‘New York, thank you for coming — buy my CD.’ ”

 

I think she's really taking away the Ferrari this time

 

He went through a short-lived dream, now what? NOTHING.

 

I actually had a chance to meet her back in '00 or '01 (whenever the Superbowl was in Tampa last) but couldn't because I was too lazy to make the hour long drive. This was when she was dating Timberlake. She had a party at a club in Ybor that weekend and I was asked by the owner if I wanted to hang out with them. She was a pretty new teen star back then and I remember thinking "who cares?"

Now, if I had known homegirl was gonna end up rolling like that, I would have at least made the attempt. LOL. At least it makes for a funny story now.

 

Somehow I can't shed a tear for those kids, something about living in the Lap of Luxury does that to me.

As I posted on another forum:

"He won't be poor.

Do you have any idea how much the little intimate secrets of Brittany's life would sell in book form

I believe he will probably get a healthy severance package from Mrs. Spears"

True he might be out of the spotlight, but man, I would take the money

 

And with the mere mention of the sacred words "HORSEFLY", he reappears like a genie from a bottle after months of self imposed exile.

A friend of mine was on vacation in Maui back in February during the same week that Britney and fodderhead were in Maui. Perhaps my people should have talked to her people. She looked great on Letterman last night.
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Yawn.....

I could really care less, the only reason I'm posting here is to drive up my post count.

 

I think this is a good move on her part.

 

i just heard about it on the radio coming from school, aparently Spears has a very good pre-nup in place, but he'll still get a good amount of money, half of the malibu mansion, and about 30k a month (not sure for what length)

Heard his new nick name is now: Fed-ex