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Amanda Bynes: Amanda Bynes on the Red Carpet (cropped2)
Amanda Bynes. The Heart Truth. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Died
living; conservatorship filed 2013, ended March 22, 2022
Place
Ventura County, California · United States
Field
Film and television actor · Film and television on the timeline
Legal tradition
California probate conservatorship law · Common law
Historical event
End of Britney Spears' conservatorship, November 2021
Religion
Amanda Bynes: Jewish, Other Christian (recorded as Judaism, Christianity on Wikidata; 21st-century American Jews, Jewish American actresses, Jewish American film people on Wikipedia)
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Amanda Bynes lived under her mother's conservatorship for nine years

Amanda Bynes starred on Nickelodeon as a teenager. In 2012 and 2013 she faced driving charges in Los Angeles County, including a suspected DUI after her car clipped a sheriff's cruiser, and drug charges in New York. On July 22, 2013, Ventura County deputies detained her after she set a small fire in front of a stranger's home in Thousand Oaks. She was held for a psychiatric evaluation under California's 5150 law. Her parents filed for conservatorship soon after, and her mother, Lynne, was granted temporary control of her affairs in August 2013†. The conservatorship oversaw her personal and professional affairs for nine years. In February 2022, three months after a judge ended Britney Spears' 13-year conservatorship, Bynes petitioned to end hers. Her mother did not object. A lawyer for her parents said they were "happy, thrilled" and that professionals said she was ready to make her own decisions. On March 22, 2022, Ventura County Judge Roger Lund granted the petition in a hearing of about five minutes. "The conservatorship is no longer needed or required," he said. Bynes was not in the courtroom.

What the law took from it

A conservatorship can be ended by petition when the person shows capacity, and a parent who does not object shortens the process.

Sources
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  2. Los Angeles TimesPress

Cite as: celebrity.estate, “Amanda Bynes lived under her mother's conservatorship for nine years,” story s453, https://www.celebrity.estate/amanda-bynes-2013, updated 30 October 2026.

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