LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Court has adjourned for the day in Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's custody hearing at the Los Angeles County Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

Spears left the courthouse around 12:10 pm PST and Federline is expected to be leaving momentarily, perhaps after his attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, speaks to the press.

The hearing began, as most family court hearings do, as being open to the public and to the press, but after both parties were sworn in, Commissioner Scott Gordon asked all un-involved parties to leave the room under Family Code 214 which reads: "Except as otherwise provided in this code or by court rule, the court may, when it considers it necessary in the interests of justice and the persons involved, direct the trial of any issue of fact joined in a proceeding under this code to be private, and may exclude all persons except the officers of the court, the parties, their witnesses, and counsel."

Both parties spent the better part of the late morning in separate, private chambers with their attorneys before reconvening in the courtroom and being dismissed.

It is still unclear what the outcome of today's hearing was except that the next progress hearing will be July 16. We expect a press conference by court spokesperson Allan Parachini shortly, as well as statements from Kaplan.

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