Britney has no plans to attend custody hearing today.....

Kevin Federline Arrives for Custody Hearing
MONDAY JANUARY 14, 2008 12:20 PM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman and Ken Lee

Photo by: INF; Ethan Miller / Getty

Kevin Federline arrived at Los Angeles Superior Court's Stanley Mosk Building Monday morning for the latest round in his ongoing custody fight with ex-wife Britney Spears.

Shortly after 9 a.m. (the hearing was scheduled to begin at 9:30), Federline appeared, wearing a blue pinstripe suit and looking confident and upbeat.

As the hearing time passed, Spears, 26, remained at home. A source said she had "no plans" to attend the session. Another source said she had been "strongly advised" by her legal team to attend the hearing, adding that the singer was told that "her attendance is important."

The court gathering is expected to focus on Spears's four-hour Jan. 3 standoff with police, firefighters and paramedics at her Studio City home. Events that evening resulted with Spears being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Federline, 29, currently retains sole legal and physical custody of the couple's two sons, Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1. Spears was stripped of all visitation rights following her hospitalization.

Also at issue Monday is whether the court will extend its ban on Spears's visitation. Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, told PEOPLE that it's possible Spears might not see her children until April, when the ex-couple's custody trial begins. (Federline has requested primary physical custody.)

Over the weekend, Spears continued to be seen with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, 35. Among their stops were a Mercedes dealership and a department store, where Spears reportedly shouted a profanity at a bystander who attempted to take her photo.

Re: Britney has no plans to attend custody hearing today.....

what a mess

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I have supported her through all of her drama, and have even tried not to judge her actions because I'm not in her shoes, but I am at a loss at this point. How do you not show up?

Honestly, my mother took off when I was 7 and my father raised my sister and I. Her boys at this point seem to be better off. It's very sad and she will regret her decisions.

Re: Britney has no plans to attend custody hearing today.....

she's decided she doesn't want to be a mother anymore. maybe if she got some help, her outlook would be different. at least before it appeared that she was trying, but now it seems she's done.

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for those poor boys.

Sadly, she is beyond help at this point. The way she is going to get better is if she WANTS to. They can continue to lock her up as much as they want, but if her mind is against getting herself the help she so desperately needs, it's not going to happen. Her Mental illness has totally taken over her, she has no sense of what is right or good for her or her boys any longer.

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she really is a complete mess! no wonder her lawyers want nothing to do with her!

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It breaks my heart when I see those boys sad faces.

I called it from the start. She can't be bothered with those kids and I think hafl of the things she has done was to succeed in losing custody. And this is another blantant attempt to get rid of her responsibility to those boys.

She chose to abandon her sons, whom she should have thought twice about if she was ready to be a mother (first time, even worse, second time around). So terrible for those children.