Just days before the child hostage standoff that sent Britney Spears to Cedars-Sinai’s psych ward, Trope & Trope Law Firm filed a petition with the court to be removed as the pop tart’s legal representative in the custody battle. According to whispers behind the legal firm’s doors, the staff there believes that Spears is just as crazy as everyone does.

A source at the firm spilled to the Los Angeles Times: “Never in all the years we’ve practiced law have we had such an impossible, irrational and difficult client, and we’ve had many who were tough!”