January 5, 2008 0:05

Britney Spears banned from seeing her children

Court order removes troubled star’s visitation rights

Britney Spears visitation rights with her two sons have been suspended following an emergency court hearing today (January 4).

The singer is currently been held for mental evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, following her well-publicised meltdown last night.

She lost custody of her children in October after being ruled a “habitual” user of drugs, and was granted two day visits per week with her children plus one overnight stay. All the visits were ordered to be supervised by a court-appointed monitor.

As previously reported, Spears had a stand-off with police at her home last night after refusing to turn over two year-old Jayden James to ex-husband Kevin Federline’s bodyguard.

After a police intervention, the reportedly hysterical singer was strapped to a gurney and taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai where she will be held for 72 hours.

--By our New York staff.
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