Britney hospitalized after dispute

Pop star Britney Spears was taken to a hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for a psychological evaluation after police were called to her home Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute, a police spokesman said.

Spears appeared to be conscious as she was rolled out of her Studio
City home on a gurney about three hours after police and ambulances
arrived there.

According to The Associated Press, officers were
called to Spears' house around 8 p.m. to respond to a custodial dispute
with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their sons, 2-year-old Sean
Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James, Officer Jason Lee of the Los
Angeles Police Department said.

By about 10:30 p.m., six police
cars, two ambulances and a fire truck had entered the gated community
that includes Spears' house. Several police cars were seen in the area
earlier in the night.

Spears turned over the children around 10:50 p.m., Lee said.

The children were returned to Federline, who has primary legal custody of the two sons, a police spokesman said.

Doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will decide
whether to invoke a California law that allows a patient to be held for
psychological evaluation for 72 hours, the police spokesman said.

Aerial video provided by local television station helicopters showed
Spears on a stretcher and surrounded by police and paramedics as it was
rolled to an ambulance near her home.

Spears has been in a
heated battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline over custody of their two
sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1. Federline, Spears' former backup dancer, holds primary custody of the
children. Spears has been in trouble with the court earlier concerning
her compliance with court orders in the custody case.

Spears appeared for a deposition in the case earlier Thursday,
Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told reporters during the day,
according to the AP. She was deposed for 14 minutes, Kaplan said.

Spears' attorneys, Trope and Trope, had filed a motion Wednesday asking
to be relieved as her counsel due to a "breakdown" in communication
with Spears.