Several weeks have passed since West began making headlines, first for his controversial Yeezy fashion show in Paris, where he debuted his line of shirts with the phrase “White Lives Matter,” and more recently, for remarks he made that were criticized as antisemitic.

The rapper and fashion designer, who legally changed his name to Ye, has been locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for the remarks, and several brands have terminated business deals with him in response, but is there more that can or should be done?

Last week, SiriusXM host Howard Stern discussed Ye on his show, saying he was tired of people excusing Ye’s behavior on the basis of his mental health struggles. Ye has been open for several years about his experiences with bipolar disorder.

“Kanye was on the Chris Cuomo show, and good Lord, you gotta hear the…mental illness, self-defense thing that he’s into, you know, like, ‘Oh yeah, he’s just mentally ill. Don’t worry about it….’ If he’s so mentally ill, why don’t they appoint a conservator over his money like they did with the poor Britney Spears?” Stern said last week.

In a response, Ye brought up Stern in a podcast interview with Lex Fridman on Monday.

“I’m antagonizing you, Howard Stern,” Ye said. “I used to be a fan of you….Now you’re just doing clickbait like everybody else. Now you’re just a sad old man, Howard.”

Stern was not the first to question the prospect of a conservatorship for the musician and fashion designer, though. Many online have also called for one.

“Why is Kanye not under a conservatorship????” one Twitter user wrote.

“Kanye is so unhinged. I’m not trying to put down his mental illnesses, but it’s not fair that Britney Spears had a conservatorship and Kanye is roaming the streets spreading unnecessary hate towards people in the Jewish community and false information about George Floyd’s death,” another user wrote.

“Why doesn’t Kanye have a conservatorship set up for him yet?” another tweeted.

Attorney Graham Douds with Barr & Young Attorneys in Danville, California, who has experience in conservatorship cases, said that there are many legal factors that a party might run into should they petition for conservatorship.

Someone who would be trying to file an action would “have to show that he is unable to care for his personal welfare, and substantially unable to provide for his personal financial welfare,” Douds told Newsweek.

“And what do we point to? His medical records? He’s gonna say that’s private….What could we point to to say that he needs a conservatorship other than he acts erratic? There’s nothing illegal about acting erratic.”

In comparing Ye’s case to Spears, who was under a conservatorship placed on her by her family for 13 years before it was dissolved last November, Douds said there are a few major differences.

“The main one is consent,” Douds said. “Britney consented to the conservatorship….For Ye, I would be shocked to the core if he consented to one. I think there’s just a different dynamic.”

Attorney Scott Rahn of RMO LLP concurred. For Spears, during the events that led up to the conservatorship in the early 2000s, Rahn told Newsweek that when it came time to place the conservatorship on her, “She didn’t resist, she didn’t object and voluntarily became a ward.”

“Conservatorships largely are intended to provide help for people who are incapable of helping themselves, not necessarily for people who other people think need help,” Rahn said. “The activities of Ye, his behavior, while certainly something that plenty of people have commented upon, I don’t think rises to the level of qualifying him for conservatorship.”

Once again, medical protections would stand in the way if someone sought out a mental health conservatorship, Rahn said.

“The medical team has to make that determination on their own. Sometimes they can do it in consultation with the family, but doctors are not going to be consulting Howard Stern about what’s best for Ye.

“So you know, it just shows a common misunderstanding of what conservatorships are and are not and what they’re intended to do, and kind of the conflating of what is a very specific set of circumstances surrounding Britney’s conservatorship.”

A conservatorship is not something to be taken lightly, Douds said.

“The idea of a conservative is that you’re taking someone’s civil liberties away,” he said. “You’re taking their agency away.”

Newsweek reached out to Ye’s representatives for comment.