Lepaparazzi News Update: Spears & Federline Begin Child Custody Battle

Britney Spears and her ex-husband Kevin Federline have kicked off their child custody battle in a Los Angeles court. Attorneys for the Toxic singer and Federline met with a lawyer from the Los Angeles County Counsel at the L.A. Country Superior Court on Monday.

Spears and Federline have two sons, Sean Preston, 23 months and 11-month-old Jayden James.

Spears and Federline have two sons, Sean Preston, 23 months and 11-month-old Jayden James.

A hearing has been set for September 4.
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Celebrity News: Kevin Federline Puffing Pot At Work?

Naughty Kevin Federline has reportedly been smoking marijuana on the set of his new TV show.

The former backing dancer - who is currently locked in a bitter custody dispute with ex-wife Britney Spears – is said to have stunned cast and crew on the North Carolina set of hit TV show One Tree Hill by openly puffing on joints.

A source snitches on K-Fed to the New York Daily News: "He is smoking marijuana all round the set, like it is just part of his lifestyle.

"The smell is so potent it's obvious that he is not just smoking regular cigarettes.

"He doesn't seem to see a need to hide it at all."

Earlier this month, Kevin won custody of his two sons with ex-wife after Britney failed to attend a court-ordered drugs test.

The next hearing is set for October 26.
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Britney Spears/ Kevin Federline Custody Trial Will Go Forward, K-Fed's Lawyer Says

After a mediation session, lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan says Brit's ex won't stop short of full custody.
By Chris Harris


On Thursday, Britney Spears, her father, Jamie, and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, met at an undisclosed location for an all-day mediation session.

Both sides wanted to see if they could hammer out an out-of-court agreement over the custody of the couple's two sons — Sean Preston and Jayden James — in advance of an August trial during which permanent custody of the young boys will ultimately be decided by a judge.

By the end of it, a compromise was not reached, meaning the August trial will proceed. Not long after Thursday's marathon mediation session, Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told E! Online that his client isn't about to let his guard down.

"Kevin is seeking to maintain the sole legal and physical custody that he presently has," Kaplan told the tabloid news site. "There's nothing magical about 50-50.

There's nothing magical about 60-40. What's magical is that whatever order is in place, it's the order that best suits the best interest of the children."

In short, Federline wants his kids fulltime, cementing the temporary order now in place. "Kevin has had sole legal custody since January," Kaplan continued.

"He wants that to become the permanent order at trial, and the visitation to be consistent with what the court expanded it to this week."

As it currently stands, Spears has been afforded overnight visitation with her sons, which will commence on Saturday night.

She has also been awarded two daytime visits with the boys each week. And while Federline wants Spears to be a presence in his sons' lives, Kaplan said, he doesn't want to make concessions that would diminish his own right to be with his children.

"He wants to have an order ... that takes into account a certain stability and structure for the kids ... regardless of whose house they happen to be in at any given moment," Kaplan explained.

"When the conservatorship was imposed, it brought a certain sense of structure and stability to an environment that seemed to be continually in flux. And in flux is not a description of what you want for a child's environment."

Although Thursday's mediation yielded no change in the couple's current custody arrangement, it did get both sides to the table, and it began a positive dialogue that Federline hopes will carry over into the August proceedings, his lawyer said.

"The mood was comfortable, positive, and it was a mood that was consistent with opening at least a great dialogue, which is necessary," Kaplan told E! Online.

"The trial in August is going to determine two primary issues: custody and visitation, and attorneys' fees. ... If the existing arrangement was acceptable to both parties, we would have an agreement, and we wouldn't have to go to trial. But that didn't happen." Mtv News

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Lepaparazzi News Update: Lindsay Lohan dating Federline

LINDSAY LOHAN is denying US press reports suggesting she and Britney Spears' ex-husband KEVIN FEDERLINE are a new item after spending a steamy afternoon together in a Los Angeles hotel.

New tabloid reports claim Federline spent the night with Lohan at the Raffles L'Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills last week (04Apr07) after she phoned him and invited the rapper to join her for a drink.

Sources tell the National Enquirer, "Kevin and Lindsay are dating, and Lindsay made the first move.

"Kevin met Lindsay through Britney, and they were always flirtatious with each other."

The insiders claim Federline was invited to "talk business" with Lohan and he thought the meeting with Lohan would be about a film project.

Lohan reportedly suggested the pair speak in private after Federline turned up with his manager, and then retired to her suite with the newly-divorced father.

The publication claims the couple made love. Lohan denies the story.
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