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Feuding Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have reunited in Beverly Hills, California to discuss parenting issues.

The former couple met at the Beverly Hills Hotel yesterday to begin a ‘Parenting Without Conflict’ program - a six-week course that Spears is required to take as part of the pair’s ongoing child custody battle.

The program suggests parents take the course together, but it is not mandatory.

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Britney Spears has won modified visitation rules that allow her two boys to spend one night a week with her after taking her case to a US court.

The pop star’s lawyer requested her mother become the required court-appointed monitor.

Spears made a surprise appearance in the Los Angeles courtroom yesterday after Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon held a morning hearing on her emergency request to expand visitation but declined to rule.

He gave attorneys for Spears and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, who was recently granted custody, more time to discuss the matter outside court.

Spears was previously allowed monitored visits with the children but no overnight stays.

Neither she nor her attorneys spoke to reporters after the closed, afternoon hearing.

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A judge has ordered Britney Spears to complete three joint counselling sessions with her ex-husband Kevin Federline before their next child custody hearing on October 26.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon also ruled that Spears must abide to strict drug testing regulations or her monitored visitation privileges with her two children will be taken away.

Spears lost physical custody of her sons after reportedly ignoring a string of court-imposed demands and skipping mandatory drug tests.

The further details of Wednesday’s temporary ruling - at which Federline was told he’ll retain custody of Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one - were revealed in court documents released yesterday.

Gordon said that “a missed (drug) test, refusal to submit to a test, or failure to respond to the testing agency’s call” shall be deemed by the court as a failed test.”

At the closed hearing, the judge added that a court-imposed monitor “shall terminate visitation immediately if any conduct or action by (Spears) endangers the minor children.”

Spears must also attend three individual counselling meetings before the October 26 hearing.

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A court has ordered pop singer Britney Spears to give up custody of her children effective Wednesday at noon.

Spears’ former husband, Kevin Federline, is to retain custody of their two sons “until further order of the court,” papers from Los Angeles Superior Court show.

It was not clear what led to Monday’s decision awarding Federline full custody. A transcript of the court proceedings was ordered sealed.

Last month, a judge ordered Spears, 25, to submit to random drug tests after finding she engaged in “habitual, frequent, and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol.”

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Britney Spears is a “habitual, frequent and continuous” user of alcohol and controlled substances and now must undergo twice-weekly random testing, a judge in the singer’s custody case ruled.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon also ruled that both Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline may not consume alcohol or non-prescription controlled substances at least 12 hours prior to being with their children.

Spears, alone, was ordered to meet with a “parenting coach” at least twice a week for a total of eight hours, according to court documents released Tuesday.

“The parenting coach is to observe (Spears’s) interaction with the minor children and her parenting skills,” the Commissioner wrote. The coach will provide lawyers on both sides with written reports, and will appear in court at the ex-couple’s next hearing on Nov. 26.

Both Spears and Federline have also been ordered to complete a program called “Parenting Without Conflict,” and must enroll by the end of the week. They must attend joint co-parenting counseling, and both sides must decide on selection of a therapist by week’s end.
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While sons Sean Preston, 23 months, and Jayden James, 11 months, are away (with mom Britney Spears this weekend), it was Kevin Federline’s turn to play… into the early hours of the morning.

Federline, who has kept a low profile as his child custody battle with ex Spears looms, hit the Venetian’s Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas Friday night with a party of 25.

“He was drinking straight from the vodka and Jagermeister bottles,” an onlooker said. “I didn’t see him with a drink in his hand that much, but he drank out of the bottles a few times.”

Federline and his group arrived at the club around 11:30 p.m. and had dinner at Tao’s Loft before retreating to the club at 1 a.m., says a source. There, Federline, dressed in jeans and a yellow polo shirt, started the party with bottles of Jack Daniels, Grey Goose and Jagermeister.

Stationed at his VIP table, Federline chatted with a few of the girls surrounding him, and later migrated to the table full of women adjacent to his. “He was grinding up on a few of the girls,” the source said. “He had a flashlight and was shining it on some of the girls around him.”

Thoughout the night, Federline flashed his gold necklace to the deejay, DJ Reach, and even held up a cigarette lighter when the deejay played Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’.

Smiling and chain-smoking throughout the night, Federline finally left the club around 4 a.m.

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Here’s a little bit of gossip for you this morning:

“…According to insiders, “Kevin (Federline) was going to use the frying pan, but Britney grabbed it and hit him with it when he turned his back. He grabbed the pan out of her hand and walked away, but she hurled an ashtray at him.” Supposedly, the entire altercation was caught on surveillance tape!

Then there’s this little gem…

“He (Federline) and his Beverly Hills attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, have obtained sworn affidavits from three former Spears employees — a nanny and two bodyguards — detailing horrific examples of Brit’s lack of parenting skills.”

“What those affidavits allegedly reveal about Britney and how she treats Sean Preston, 23 months, and Jayden James, 11 months — including ranting ‘You were both mistakes!’ at the tots — are shocking and disturbing and they could prove to be the straw that shifts custody to Kevin!”

My goodness.  Brit must be the absolute worst mother in the world.  How could any mother tell her kids they were mistakes???  I think she was a mistake.
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Sources connected with the custody battle between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline tell TMZ $$$$ may really be at the heart of the tussle over the kids.

As we first reported, K-Fed is going back to court asking for more custody of the kids. Federline just agreed to a 50/50 split. Then, he turned around almost immediately and filed papers asking for 70/30. So why such a sudden change of heart?

It’s puzzling that Kevin is suddenly alarmed, given that he’s had absolutely no contact with Spears for almost three months. In fact, we’re told she’s begging him to communicate because of parenting issues but he won’t play ball.

That brings us to the paperwork Federline filed. Sources say there are declarations from Kevin, both of his lawyers, Kevin’s nanny and a nanny who interviewed with Britney in October, 2006, before the couple separated. In the papers, Federline’s lawyer also included various magazine articles about Britney. Legal experts say good luck getting that into evidence.

Alli Sims, Britney’s cousin, was served over the weekend. Kevin’s lawyer wants to take her deposition. Now here’s what’s telling. Federline’s lawyer also wants to take Britney’s depo, but a source connected with Alli says the deposition notice Britney received is all financial — in other words, the references are all about money, not the kids.

So does K-Fed want more custody just so he can get more cash? A Federline source says it’s all about the kids and not money. Federline wants Britney under oath talking about whether she drinks and how she parents the kids.

Oh, and by the way: Kev’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, is asking that Britney pay his legal fees for the hearing and preparation — and that they’re in the six figures.

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At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, Britney Spears’s longtime pal, Alli Sims, was served with legal papers concerning the ongoing custody battle between Spears and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, a source tells PEOPLE.

Sims was leaving a party at a private home in the Hollywood Hills when she was served by Aaron Cohen of IMS-Security.

“Alli was really shocked and covered her face,” an observer tells PEOPLE. “[She was] really distraught and said ‘Oh my God.’ ”

Spears, who was also at the party, did not witness the serving of the papers, according to the observer.

The papers are a deposition subpoena sent by Federline’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, compelling Sims to testify about Spears’s parenting skills.

Sims, who has known Spears since childhood and is regularly at her side while partying in Los Angeles, recently told PEOPLE: “[Britney] is a wonderful mom and she is so hands-on. … Britney loves those babies to death. And they adore her.”

On Wednesday, Federline filed for primary custody of the couple’s two sons, Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months.

A source close to Federline told PEOPLE recently that the would-be rapper has been worried about Spears’s behavior and thinks she may be exposing the boys to “unnecessary risk.”

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