Will It Be A Christmas Miracle Or Disaster?

The new date for the Britney custody hearing is December 18th. I doubt the judge will rule from the bench so it means that barring some type of monumental collapse by Britney between now and Christmas she should manage to keep the current arrangements in place until the first few weeks of 2008.

What this means as far as gossip is that between now and the hearing, all the witnesses like the nanny and assistant and former manager and even Britney will all be getting their depositions taken. Technically, the depositions and all discovery needs to be completed 30 days prior to the hearing which in this case would be November 18th. However, I think there will be a ton of schedule shuffling and so figure the depositions and other discovery will continue until right before the hearing as long as both sides agree to do so.

Although we may not hear much before the hearing about what is being said in the depositions you can look for clues as to what is being said by seeing if any new subpoenas are issued to new witnesses. For example, in a completely hypothetical situation, Britney's former assistant testifies that Britney used drugs in front of Person A, then Person A may be subpoenaed to give a deposition or even saved to testify at trial saying that yes, she did drugs in front of them.