The LAPD slapped Britney Spears with a temporary restraining order last Thursday during her custody standoff, celebrity news sources report.
Called an “emergency protective order,” it is enforced for five business days. LAPD officers took this step to “stabilize the situation,” Kevin Federline’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, confirmed to People.
Mark Vincent Kaplan, who did not request the restraining order, declined to say whether he would seek to extend it beyond five days.
“Kevin doesn’t want to keep his kids from being involved in [Spears’] life. But foremost is that the children be in an environment of structure [and] stability,” he said. “The next goal in this process is to get things to a point where both parents are able to participate fully in their [children’s] lives.”
Spears, 26, was stripped of all custody and visitation rights with Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, pending her next hearing January 14.
Meanwhile, her family is now blasting Dr. Phil McGraw for “breaching their trust and misleading the public” in speaking out about his visit with her.
“He was not invited to make this a public display,” Lou Taylor, spokesman for Brit’s mom, Lynne Spears, said on Today this morning.
Taylor denied Dr. Phil’s claims that Britney’s parents planned to appear on his talk show following her stint in L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week, calling McGraw’s plans to do a show on Britney “self-serving.”
The day he visited Britney in the hospital �” Dr. Phil claimed Lynne called him to come intervene �” he released a statement saying Britney Spears that was “in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention” and that he planned to address her mental situation on an upcoming episode of Dr. Phil Now.
Of media criticism surrounding his association with Spears, Phil fired back in a statement released Monday, saying “they want to criticize me for trying to help her? Get real. She needs less publicity, not more!”
Regardless, the increasingly insane Britney has put her family in a tough spot. “She needs to be on suicide watch,” her aunt, Chanda McGovern, said.