LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Britney Spears will pay child support of $20,000 a month to ex-husband Kevin Federline for the concern of their two children and will make a final defrayment of $250,000 to his lawyers, according to an arrangement between the couple filed in court on Friday.
The monthly child support payment is a $5,000 increase over what Spears and Federline, a dancer and rap vocaliser, agreed to last year, the tourist court papers showed.
The agreement comes a week after lawyers aforesaid they had agreed to a final settlement in the child custody case, averting the need to go to trial.
In an parliamentary law filed on Friday, the August test was called off.
Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, told several media organizations on July 17 the agreement would allow Federline to retain sole custody of his children with Spears -- Sean Preston, 2-1/2, and Jayden James, 22 months.
Spears' $250,000 payment for Federline's legal expenses is due July 30.
Spears, 26, and Federline, 30, married in 2004, split up in late 2006 and their disunite was finalized last year. Spears lost custody of the deuce boys in January after two brief hospitalizations for psychiatric rating.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Bill Trott)
