ATLANTA (AP) — While Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life, a feud
has erupted over whether her partner can visit her in the hospital.
The only daughter of the late
singer Whitney Houston has been hospitalized at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta since being found unresponsive Jan. 31 in a tub at
her Georgia home.
A lawyer
for Bobbi Kristina's father, Bobby Brown, said in a statement late
Saturday that Bobbi Kristina's partner, Nick Gordon, was offered an
opportunity to potentially visit her if he agreed to meet certain
conditions.
But Gordon's
attorneys said Sunday that Brown has consistently denied Gordon
permission to visit. They said they advised Gordon to refuse the
conditions set by Brown. The conditions have not been made public.
Gordon has repeatedly offered to discuss the issue privately with Brown, rather than through lawyers.
"Those
offers have also been rejected," said Gordon's lawyers, Randy Kessler
and Joe Habachy, in the statement. "We hope Mr. Brown has a change of
heart."
Houston brought Gordon into her
household as an orphan at the age of 12, raising him and her daughter
after divorcing Bobby Brown in 2007.
Relations
between Gordon and some other family members soured last year: He
remains subject to a protective order barring him from being within 200
feet of Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Patricia Houston.
Bobbi Kristina
became the sole inheritor of her mother's estate when she died in 2012,
and shortly thereafter, she and Gordon went public with their romantic
relationship.Brown said his daughter isn't and never has been married to Gordon.
On Thursday, doctors replaced Bobbi Kristina's breathing tube with a tracheostomy tube, according to a person close to the family who was not authorized to speak on her condition. The tracheostomy is usually used for patients who need to be on a ventilator for an extended period