A judge has terminated the actress' conservatorship, stating that she has “done everything the court has asked.”
A California judge officially terminatedAmanda Bynes' conservatorship Tuesday, releasing the former child star from her parents' legal control after almost nine years.
Bynes was first placed under the conservatorship in 2013, after her struggles with substance abuse led to a highly publicized spiral of erratic behavior and multiple arrests.
Amanda Bynes in 2008.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage
The actressfiled to terminate the arrangementlast month, with her lawyer David A. Esquibias stating, “She believes her condition is improved and protection of the court is no longer necessary.”
All other parties involved apparently agreed; in contrast toBritney Spears' prolonged court battle to terminate her own conservatorship, Bynes seemed able to end hers quickly and easily, with the full support of her parents, Lynn and Rick Bynes.
“Lynn is so proud of Amanda and the progress she has made and looks forward to having a mother-daughter relationship with Amanda outside of the conservatorship,” the parents' lawyer, Tamar Arminak, told EW in a statement.
During the short hearing in Ventura County Superior Court, Judge Roger L. Lund congratulated Bynes and said she had “done everything the court has asked over a long period of time,” according toThe New York Times.
The official termination followed atentative rulingMonday stating that “the court determines that the conservatorship is no longer required and that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship of the person no longer exist.”
In 2018,the actress toldPapermagazinethat she had been sober for four years, and thanked her parents for helping her “get back on track.”
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