Details of Britney Spears' custody battle released by court

A court agreed to release details of Britney Spears' bitter child custody battle with Kevin Federline to child protection services yesterday.

The Los Angeles Superior Court released the sensitive documents after a request from the Department of Children and Family Services.

At Monday's (26 Nov) court date it was agreed that although Kevin will keep custody of Sean Preston, 2, Jayden James,1, Britney will have access to see the kids on Christmas day. Spears and Federline were not present for the date.

At a previous court hearing on 8 November, K-Fed's legal team said they want his ex-wife to have less visitation rights with their kids - because they claim she keeps missing random drug tests.

The music star was ordered to take the drug tests after she was stripped of custody.

The boys are currently living with Federline, with the singer only allowed supervised visits until the custody battle is resolved.

According to her lawyer, Anne Kiley, Britney has been finding it difficult to arrange court-ordered drug tests because of her busy pop star schedule.

Federline's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan has previously told the court that Britney lives in a "parallel universe" and has accused Spears of failing to answer phone calls about the tests.

Spears will again be in court on January 23 in the next round of her ongoing custody battle with Federline.