Washington
(ANI):
Troubled
pop
princess
Britney
Spears
has
been
ordered
by
the
court
to
pay
Kevin
Federline's
375,000
dollars
legal
bills.
Britney's
lawyer,
Stacy
Phillips,
had
last
week
complained
against
Federline's
attorney,
Mark
Vincent
Kaplan,
for
over-charging
Spears
by
raising
his
hourly
fee,
People
mag
reported.
Stacy
also
asked
that
Federline
be
ordered
to
contribute
to
his
own
legal
bills
in
the
former
couple's
ongoing
custody
case,
bringing
up
Federline's
recent
dining
extravagance,
where
he
had
left
a
tip
of
2,000
dollars
for
a
365
dollars
dining
tab.
Phillips
pointed
out
that
Kevin
could
afford
to
help
pay
"for
the
diligent
work
being
done
on
his
behalf."
However,
Los
Angeles
Court
Commissioner
Scott
Gordon
has
called
the
legal
billing
"reasonable," in
large
part
because
"the
actions
of
[Spears]
caused
the
great
majority
of
litigation."
Federline
had
previously
declared
in
court
papers
made
public
last
year
that
he
had
no
steady
income,
while
Spears
takes
in
more
than
700,000
dollars
a
month.
According
to
the
income
and
needs,
the
family
courts
have
the
power
to
order
one
party
to
pay
for
the
other's
fees.