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Derailed Britney Spears loses custody of her sons

Britney Spears was derailed yet again in her struggle to get her life back on track, losing custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline after she was hauled off to a hospital for observation.

A court commissioner on Friday gave sole physical and legal custody of the former couple's two little boys to Federline and suspended the troubled pop star's visitation rights.

Spears was taken from her home to a hospital by paramedics a day before, after police had to intervene when she refused to return the children to Federline after a court-monitored visit.

Commissioner Scott Gordon ordered another hearing to be held on Jan. 14.

Federline had previously been awarded temporary custody of two-year-old Sean Preston and one-year-old Jayden James because Spears had defied court orders, resulting in limitations on her visitation rights.

"I'm not happy about any of these events," Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan said when he left a closed-door emergency hearing on Friday afternoon. "There's no winners here."

Federline was not in court for the hearing, Kaplan said.

Law professor Steve Cron predicted that Spears would face sanctions from the court for her behavior.

"My guess is that she won't be seeing her kids for a while," said Cron, who teaches at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

Gordon has little option other than to further reduce the time Spears can legally spend with her children, Cron said.

"At least for the time being until she gets some help. She's obviously a very troubled person," he said.
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