Britney Spears' sons to be 'drug tested'

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The troubled singer is convinced ex-husband Kevin Federline has been smoking marijuana around the couple's infant sons.

She has asked a court-appointed monitor to test Sean Preston, two and one-year-old Jayden James to see if any traces of the drug show up, as the warring couple's custody battle rages on.

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Concern: Britney is convinced Kevin Federline has been smoking marijuana around the couple's infant sons

A friend said: "Britney believes Kevin's been smoking pot in front of the kids.

"She says she can smell it in the boys' hair and on their clothes when she has her visitation with them."

An insider told a US magazine: "She's asked the court-appointed monitor and her lawyers if they can prove the kids have been exposed to environments in which drugs have been taken."

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New battle: Britney, who has been called on to complete drug tests herself, wants her children sampled in her bid to win back custody

Spears, 26, wed former backing dancer Federline, 29, in September 2004. She filed for divorce in November 2006, citing "irreconcilable differences".

He later applied for sole custody of their sons, sparking a bitter custody fight.

She now plans to snip off a few strands of the boys' hair after they have been with their father, it was claimed, in the hope it will test positive.

The insider added: "He could lose custody."

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Bitter battle: Britney and Kevin are still fighting over custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James

Addiction expert Marty Brenner - who is not involved with Spears or Federline - said it would be easy to check for drugs with a hair sample.

He said: "Testing for secondhand marijuana use can be done using a lock of hair.

"The test must be done within a day or two after exposure. Secondhand smoke would definitely show up, and results usually come back in a couple of days."

Spears has been ordered by a court to undergo regular drug tests in the fight for custody.

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Daddy drama: An insider told an American magazine Britney can smell marijuana smoke in the boys' hair and on their clothes when she has her visitation with them

To get any other drug tests used as evidence in court she would first need the approval of a judge, experts warned yesterday.

Family lawyer Evan T Sussman said: "In most cases a California judge wouldn't order a hair test on a child unless there was evidence from a third party that the parents exposed the child to marijuana. Otherwise the judge would need consent from both parents."

But a friend of Federline insisted there was no truth to the drug claims.

One told Life & Style magazine: "Kevin smokes a lot of pot. But he never smokes around the kids."

A spokesman for Federline did not return calls.