Amanda Bynes

2022 - 3 - 22

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Judge ends lengthy conservatorship for actor Amanda Bynes (Rocky Mountain Outlook)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Amanda Bynes was released Tuesday from a court conservatorship that put her life and financial decisions in her parents' control ...

Her parents said she also set a fire on the driveway of a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, where she grew up. Her parents feared she was also planning unnecessary and dangerous cosmetic surgeries. In the year before the conservatorship was established, Bynes was arrested in New York for throwing a marijuana bong out of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment, and in Los Angeles for driving under the influence, misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving on a suspended license.

Amanda Bynes released from conservatorship after nearly 9 years (Globalnews.ca)

Popular child star and early-2000s actor Amanda Bynes has officially been released from her conservatorship. On Tuesday a judge ruled to terminate Bynes' ...

Even though everyone thought I was the ‘good girl,’ I did smoke marijuana from that point on.” “I started smoking marijuana when I was 16. Bynes filed the petition to terminate her conservatorship on Feb. 23, with the support of her mother and psychiatrist.

Disability advocates say Amanda Bynes' conservatorship case is not the norm (unknown)

Amanda Bynes' conservatorship was terminated without contention. Disability advocates say her case is not the norm and conservatorships still need to be ...

"There are a lot of conservatorships where everyone is working in good faith to try to help and support a person," Brennan-Krohn said. "So it's similar to a power of attorney, although with support decisionmaking, you're still the person who can make the choice," Brennan-Krohn said. "So it's a very paternalistic and ableist view that her conservatorship was necessary," Wu said. "Millions of people across the United States are under guardianship very similar to what Britney and Amanda went through," Wu said. "And I think there's a real paternalism in that ... view of people with disabilities as not fully adult, not fully human." Her case has rarely played out in the public eye and draws a contrast to that of pop star Britney Spears, whose conservatorship was dissolved after a protracted, public court battle and has led to legal reform efforts in California.

Former child star Amanda Bynes is freed from conservatorship (unknown)

Amanda Bynes became famous for starring in her own Nickelodeon sketch comedy All That and The Amanda Show, the WB sitcom What I Like About You and films ...

Esquibias says Bynes has been working on herself for years, and reporting to the court regularly and now "all of her hard work has come to fruition." Now she's 36, and a judge in Southern California has ruled she no longer needs to be cared for by her mother. Her attorney, David Esquibias says her parents were concerned about her well-being "and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time."

Amanda Bynes’s Conservatorship Is Over (unknown)

Update (Wednesday, March 23 at 9:50am): Amanda Bynes has released a statement, given to People magazine. In it she thanked her fans, her lawyer David A.