Good News for Britney in Custody Case Hearing

Lawyers for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were back in a Los Angeles court Tuesday, where a judge granted Spears’ request for a continuance. Brit’s lawyer Laura Wasser told reporters outside the courtoom that the next hearing would be held in late November.

Despite reports that the city’s Department of Child and Family Services is investigating allegations of child abuse by Spears, no one from the DCFS was in the courtroom today. When Commissioner Scott M. Gordon asked if they should be expected, Wasser said, "I spoke to [DCFS attorneys] Paul Harris and Doug Hunter, who both said they are not going to pursue anything on this." Later, she told Usmagazine.com, “I don't think they [the DCFS] had anything to appear about."

On Wasser’s explanation of today’s DCFS no-show, Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told Us at a post-hearing press conference, “I don't know if that's true and I don't know if that's untrue. I think the best person to talk about that is DCFS.”

Wasser asked the court for a continuance on the case on August 27, citing an insufficient amount of time for discovery. At the time, Kaplan rebutted that it was simply Wasser's vacation schedule that prevented the case from going forward as planned. He also asked that Spears, being the "monied party," pay for Federline's legal costs.

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