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Happy Birthday, Jayden James!!! It's time to celebrate, both your adulthood and the fact child support from Britney Spears will not end on this special day.

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00:00So today, big day, big day in the world of Britney Spears.

00:04It is her youngest son's 18th birthday.

00:08We're talking about Jaden James.

00:10He is living in Hawaii right now with Kevin Federline

00:13and his family.

00:15Britney is in Los Angeles.

00:18And everybody thinks, well, now Sean, now Jaden James.

00:21Sean Preston turned 18 last year.

00:23Now Jaden James is 18.

00:25So that means Britney is, they're all off the books,

00:28right?

00:30No more child support.

00:31Not true.

00:32Not true.

00:33Yep, keep writing the checks, mom.

00:34Here's what we found out.

00:35If you have kids, and if you are in a divorce situation,

00:40this is really interesting.

00:41Because this is common, it turns out.

00:43So the way their child support works

00:48is that it stops when the youngest child turns 18

00:54or when that youngest child graduates from high school,

00:58which ever comes later.

01:01Now Jaden.

01:02That makes sense.

01:03That makes sense, right?

01:04Because the point is you want to pay

01:06to get the kid through school.

01:07And then whatever happens after that,

01:09that's something the parents can work out.

01:11But you shouldn't have to legally support them

01:15anymore beyond that point.

01:16Right.

01:17Now we found out Jaden is going to graduate in November.

01:21It's an early graduation.

01:24So right now, there was kind of a fight going on last month.

01:30And I'm going to get into that in a minute,

01:31because we have a lot of information.

01:33But the bottom line is Brittany will have

01:37to pay October and November.

01:41And then he graduates, and then it stops.

01:43Now this is really interesting.

01:45I haven't even told you this.

01:47When they got divorced and had these two kids,

01:51Brittany was paying Kevin $20,000 a month.

01:55Right.

01:56In 2018.

01:58It went up, right?

01:59It went up.

02:00It doubled, and it doubled partly

02:02because Kevin had the kids pretty much 100% of the time.

02:05And as kids get older, it gets more expensive.

02:09And they were going to go back into court and argue it,

02:12but they settled on the $40,000.

02:15Last month, Brittany has some new management,

02:19and they just decided, we're going to slash it in half.

02:23And so they were all getting ready for a court fight.

02:27And they just paid $20,000.

02:30They were going to slash.

02:31And the reason for slashing was what?

02:32Because Sean Preston had already graduated.

02:36He was 18.

02:37He was 18.

02:38So they're like, why are we still

02:40paying as if, I'm guessing, that was their rationale.

02:42That's right.

02:43Now on Kevin's side, he's saying,

02:47that's not what the order says.

02:49And we're going to go back into court,

02:51and you're going to incur lawyer's bills.

02:54We're going to win this, and so let's settle.

02:57So they agreed to accept $20,000 a month.

03:01But Brittany also agreed to pay a number of expenses

03:06that Kevin had.

03:07So essentially, she's giving him a lump sum

03:10in addition to the $20,000.

03:12But that $20,000 will continue through November.

03:15Huh.

03:16Interesting.

03:18And then after that?

03:19It's over.

03:20It's over.

03:21I mean, she could voluntarily still send the money,

03:23but not going to have to.

03:25Not going to happen.

03:26Really?

03:26And the other good news here, from what

03:29we've heard from these people that we've spoken to that are

03:31very privy to this information, is the fact

03:33that Brittany's relationship with her two boys

03:36has actually thawed out quite a bit.

03:38We knew there.

03:39For several years, Brittany didn't

03:41have a great relationship with the boys.

03:42They weren't really speaking.

03:44And then when they moved to Hawaii,

03:47she started speaking to them a little bit more.

03:49Now we know from these sources that that's kind of thawed out.

03:52And she's having more phone conversations with them.

03:54She's been texting with them more regularly.

03:57So there's hope that maybe in-person reconciliation

04:02could come down the road.

04:03There is definitely some hope there, though,

04:05from the people that we've spoken to.

04:06Yeah.

04:07Ice thawed a little bit.

04:08But the money thing is really interesting.

04:10Yeah.

04:11It's really interesting the way this works.

04:13And you always think it cuts off at 18.

04:15Nope.

04:16By the way, there is one other thing.

04:18Cuts off either when he turns 18 or graduates high school,

04:24but no later than 19.

04:26So it could go, in other words, in case you were in high school

04:30or set back.

04:31You're held back or whatever.

04:32Right.

04:33You can't sandbag the payment by continuing to fail.

04:38I know the two words you want to use.

04:39Don't use them.

04:41Hi, I'm Jaden Johnson.

04:43I'm calling in from Columbia, Maryland.

04:46And I mean, the whole Britney Spears thing,

04:51I mean, the money about it.

04:52I think she should definitely keep paying.

04:55If not, it's all about the kids at the end of the day.

04:59And as someone who just graduated about a year ago,

05:04I think that would help.

05:06But I hope their relationships start

05:08to get a little better.

05:10Yeah, it seems like it is a little bit.

05:12OK, a little bit.

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