Britney Spears has been awarded more visitation rights to see her two children, the lawyer for her former husband Kevin Federline said yesterday (May 6th).

Mark Vincent Kaplan told reporters following a hearing in Los Angeles that Spears had been rewarded for her “progress”.

"What was a seemingly daily state of extreme flux has been stabilized," Kaplan said.

Spears arrived at court on time yesterday flanked by her two parents, who stepped in to help the singer following her recent public outbursts.

Spears had her legal and physical custody to the two children taken away last October.

In February, however, the singer was granted occasional supervised access to see Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.

In the last 12 months Spears has endured a fractious relationship with the media and has been briefly hospitalised twice for psychiatric evaluation.

(by Jason Gregory)