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A Los Angeles court has ended Britney Spears’s conservatorship, bringing to a close the 13-year legal arrangement the pop star has ripped as “abusive” and securing victory for her fans' "Free Britney" movement, The Hill reports.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled Friday that the conservatorship would come to an end immediately, Spears’s attorney Matthew Rosengart told reporters after a hearing.

"Britney as of today, is a free woman and she’s an independent woman,” Rosengart said. "And the rest — with her support system — will be up to Britney.”

Spears’s situation has drawn national scrutiny and increased attention to similar legal conservatorships.

The “Toxic” singer had been under the conservatorship, previously controlled by her father Jamie Spears, since 2008, following public mental health struggles.

But she began publicly speaking out about the arrangement in June, when she gave a scathing testimony in Los Angeles, alleging she has been “traumatized” by its control over her life and medical health.

Among the many accusations she leveled, Spears, 39, said that under the arrangement she could not marry her boyfriend and was forced to undergo nonstop psychiatric evaluations, as well as take birth control. 

“I would like to progressively move forward, and I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby," she said. "I was told right now on the conservatorship I'm not able to get married or have a baby."