Britney Spears [ tickets ] has agreed to increase child support payments and pay her ex-husband's legal fees in exchange for added visitation rights in her custody settlement with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Under the agreement--which leaves full and legal custody of the children, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, with Federline--Spears will pay $20,000 a month in child support payments and pay Federline's $250,000 legal bill, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Spears, who has monitored visits with the boys three days and one night each week, will have her children for a second overnight visit each week beginning in the fall.

Spears' attorney told the paper the pop star was "at peace" with the agreement, which was approved by the court on Friday (7/25). Spears reportedly was not seeking legal or physical custody while remaining under the conservatorship of her father; she only was asking for additional visitation rights while negotiating the financial specifications of the agreement.

The custody settlement averts a trial scheduled for August. However, attorneys for Spears and her father are due in court July 31 to discuss the conservatorship he was awarded in January after the pop star was hospitalized for psychiatric problems.