Amanda Bynes is free.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Roger L. Lund ruled Tuesday to terminate the former actress’ conservatorship of the person and estate, Page Six can confirm.
Bynes’ attorney, David A. Esquibias, attended the five-minute hearing on her behalf.
Documents previously obtained by us stated that the court had determined the legal arrangement was “no longer required.”
Page Six broke the news that Bynes, 35, filed a petition on Feb. 23 to end her conservatorship, nearly nine years after her hospitalization on an involuntary psychiatric hold led to its establishment.
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She also submitted a capacity declaration to the judge on Feb. 22 in which psychiatrist Kimberly M. Brown of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles wrote that Bynes has “no apparent impairment in alertness and attention, information and processing, or ability to modulate mood and affect, and suffers no thought disorders.”
Esquibias said in a statement to People at the time that his client believed her condition had “improved” since her conservatorship began in August 2013 and that the court’s intervention was “no longer necessary.”
The “Amanda Show” alum herself spoke out on March 7, thanking fans for their “love and support” in a brief Instagram video recorded in anticipation of Tuesday’s hearing.
Bynes’ parents, Rick and Lynn Bynes, supported her push for freedom. Lynn served as Amanda’s conservator, while Rick was considered an interested party in the case.
“Lynn is extremely happy and thrilled and proud of Amanda and ready to terminate this conservatorship based on the hard work Amanda has done,” Lynn’s attorney, Tamar Arminak, told Variety on Feb. 25.
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Esquibias echoed to TMZ on Feb. 26 that the “She’s the Man” star has made “significant progress” in living with her bipolar disorder. The lawyer also noted that Amanda is sober after being in and out of hospitals and rehab centers for several years.
“Those days of experimenting are long over,” Amanda told Paper magazine in November 2018 of her past use of drugs including marijuana, ecstasy and Adderall.
“I’m not sad about it and I don’t miss it because I really feel ashamed of how those substances made me act,” she added.
The former Nickelodeon star retired from acting in June 2010 after appearing in the Emma Stone-led romantic comedy “Easy A.”
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in LA in June 2019 and recently expressed an interest in developing fragrances.
“She is very creative, so she’s trying to find an outlet for that,” Esquibias told Variety Monday.
TMZ reported last week that Amanda, who has been living in a structured community for women, is in the process of renting a home in California with her fiancé, Paul Michael, to whom she got engaged in February 2020.
The termination of the “All That” alum’s conservatorship comes four months after Britney Spears’ nearly 14-year conservatorship ended.
