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"Testing shall be conducted twice per week on random dates and times."</p><p>If there was any small break for Spears it was that the judge did not immediately change the existing shared custody deal between Spears and Federline for their two young boys, two-year-old Sean Preston, and one-year-old Jayden James.</p><p>On Monday it emerged that a former Spears bodyguard had lodged a statement with the court making allegations of nudity and drugs use, and expressing concern about the welfare of the Spears' sons.</p><p>Reports have said Federline had been seeking a 70/30 arrangement in his favour instead of the 50/50 agreement the couple have.</p><p>In a sign of high tension between them, the court's order also ruled that Spears and Federline were to be "restrained from making derogatory remarks about the other party and the other party's family or significant other."</p><p>Gordon, who also ordered Spears to see a therapist at least once a week, is requiring her to hire a parenting "coach." He also ordered the former couple to sign up for a Parenting Without Conflict program within five days.</p><p>Spears filed for divorce from former back-up dancer and aspiring rap singer Federline last year and has rarely been out of the tabloid headlines since, before her downward spiral landed her in a rehabilitation center in February.</p><p>Her stint in rehab followed a series of lurid tabloid headlines chronicling her erratic lifestyle.</p><p>She was repeatedly photographed in nightspots wearing no underwear, and was also captured bizarrely shaving her head in a hair salon and attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella. She reportedly has had fallings out with both of her parents; media reports also speculated that she might suffer from post-partum depression or another psychiatric condition.</p><p>The order to undergo drug testing is the latest blow to Spears' image as she attempts to rebuild her sagging career ahead of the release in November of her first album in four years.</p><p>"It is definitely a wakeup call if she wants to maintain custody of the children," prominent Los Angeles lawyer Gloria Allred told the New York Daily News. Allred argued the judge went easy on Spears.</p><p>"I believe the court should have said that until she demonstrates that she is not 'a habitual, frequent, and continuous' user of controlled substances and alcohol then she should not have custody," Allred said. "I think what he's decided is inconsistent with what he found in terms of the facts."</p><p>Monday, Spears' management company terminated a contract with her after just over a month.</p><p>That followed a heavily criticized public performance by the singer at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas. Known more as a talented dancer and performer than for her voice per se, she stunned many at the show by appearing not to know all the moves to her own number, or all the words to her own song.</p><p>Spears shot to superstardom in late 1998, with her smash-hit debut album "Baby One More Time" which she followed with another chart-topping success the following year, "Oops! ... I Did It Again".</p><p>According to Time magazine, Spears has sold over 76 million records worldwide and her 31 million albums sold in the US make her the eighth best-selling female artist in US music history.</p><p id="hn-distributor-copyright"><span>Copyright © 2010 AFP. 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