Oct 26, 2007 8:43 pm US/Eastern
Spears Court Hearing Put On Hold
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The singer and her ex-husband were expected in court later Friday. (File)
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A bid by Britney Spears for shared custody of her two young sons was put on hold Friday by a court commissioner, a lawyer for Kevin Federline said.
An afternoon hearing included extensive testimony and covered a number of issues in the high-profile case, lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan said.
Spears did not comment after the hearing. But during an earlier break in the closed hearing, she uttered an epithet at a reporter in the hallway who asked how the proceedings were going.
Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon is expected to issue a written ruling by next Tuesday, Kaplan said.
Her ex-husband Kevin Federline was also under court order to attend the Superior Court hearing.
Spears was spotted after arriving with a female companion and parking in an underground lot.
Earlier in the day, a lawyer for Spears won a motion to bar videotaping of deposition testimony in the case.
Spears' lawyer, Thomas Paine Dunlap, argued that video of the depositions would almost certainly wind up on YouTube. He said his celebrity client had a right to be protected from that exposure.
Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon made his ruling in spite of his concern that she is constantly courting "inordinate amounts of media," which he said runs counter to her expressed desire for privacy.
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