14 DAY TRIAL // Amanda Bynes was placed under involuntary, 72-hour hold the other day, after she started a fire in an elderly woman’s driveway. Amid speculation that she’s exhibiting signs of schizophrenia comes the report that her parents are working to put her under a conservatorship.
As we also noted yesterday, this was something that Rick and Lynn Bynes had wanted to do since before Amanda moved to New York, but they could never get a judge to agree with them because she hadn’t done anything serious yet, even though her behavior was out of the ordinary.
Now, Radar Online is saying that they have already spoken to an attorney and will be in court this Friday to ask a judge to grant them temporary conservatorship over their daughter.
“Rick and Lynn will appear before the judge on Friday to ask for a temporary conservatorship of their daughter, Amanda. Her parents will both be petitioning to be the temporary proposed conservators, and want control of her personal and financial affairs,” an insider tells the publication.
The idea is to force Amanda to get proper help this way, and to prevent her from doing further damage, either to herself or to others.
“Under California law, ‘the proposed conservator must show that the conservatee is unable to care for themselves, and is a danger to others,’ a source told Radar about what Bynes’ parents will face in their legal quest,” Radar explains.
Amanda won’t be charged in the fire-starting incident, word has it, but it could be used as proof that she’s a danger to herself and others if she doesn’t get the help she needs.
Another celebrity precedent is that of Britney Spears who, after the head-shaving, umbrella-throwing public meltdown, was also put under her father’s conservatorship. To this day, she still can’t make any business or personal decisions on her own, without her father signing off on them first.
“When Britney’s father got conservatorship of her, she was viewed as a danger to herself and this made it much easier for the judge to sign off on it,” the spy says, explaining that this could be Amanda as of this Friday.