Kevin Federline has agreed to give ex-wife Britney Spears visitation rights with their two young sons, his lawyer said.

Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan said in a statement on Friday that the former couple has agreed to a modification of a court order that had stripped Spears of her visitation rights.

The statement did not provide more details. A call to a Spears’ attorney was not immediately returned.

A court commissioner gave Federline sole physical and legal custody of their two little boys and suspended the pop star’s visitation rights on January 4.

Spears has not been allowed to see sons one-year-old Jayden James and teo-year-old Sean Preston, since an incident at her home that led to the first of her two hospitalisations in a psychiatric facility this year. Spears had been in a downward spiral of bizarre behaviour since divorcing Federline in November 2006.

She shaved her head, ran over a celebrity photographer’s foot and attacked a vehicle with an umbrella, among other strange behaviour.

Spears and her estate were placed under a temporary conservatorship after she was taken to UCLA Medical Centre on January 31.