Nickelodeon alum and former child star, Amanda Bynes, has made multiple filings regarding the termination of her conservatorship.

On Wednesday, February 23rd, Amanda Bynes filed court documents for ending her conservatorship. Starting in August of 2013, her conservatorship has been going on for nearly nine years now, which put her mother, Lynn Bynes, in control of her medical, personal, and financial affairs.

The 35-year-old former actress requested to terminate both the conservatorship of her person and estate in a petition submitted at the Ventura County Superior Court. In addition, Bynes filed a capacity declaration on Tuesday, February 22nd, as California requires all conservatorship cases to have up-to-date records about a conservatee’s mental state. This information would need to come from their physician, psychologist, or religious healing practitioner.

The current hearing is scheduled for March 22nd. Bynes’ attorney is yet to make any response to requests for comments.

Before Bynes’ conservatorship began, when she was only 27, she was hospitalized on an involuntary psychiatric hold (5150) for allegedly starting a small fire in a stranger’s driveway. In November of 2014, Bynes’ account Tweeted that she was, “diagnosed bipolar and manic depressive,” which came one month after a second 5150 hold the former actor was put under.

In November 2018, the She’s The Man star announced that she had been sober for four years but was unfortunately readmitted to a treatment facility two months later after a reported “stress-related relapse.”

Despite her conservatorship and all of the other adversity she has faced, Bynes was able to graduate from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (Los Angeles) in June of 2019 and was also able to meet her now-husband, Paul Michael, at an AA meeting in 2020.

Bynes’ lawyer, David Esquibias, has said that she is, “doing really well, besides anxiety and trauma,” and that her conservatorship can be terminated whenever it is, “no longer convenient.”

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