“She’s out here trying to help him, trying to make sure he’s in a position to become the person who she knows and loves,” Cher's lawyer told the court at a Friday hearing

A Los Angeles County judge has denied Cher ’s emergency bid to have a court-appointed conservator placed in charge of her son’s finances while he remains locked in a New Hampshire psychiatric facility facing criminal charges.

Cher had asked for the immediate conservatorship over Elijah Blue Allman, her only son with late Allman Brothers singer Gregg Allman , ahead of his next quarterly payout from his late father’s trust in May. The judge said she did not see the urgency and would reconsider the matter at a follow-up hearing in June. The judge added Cher could return sooner if another court finds Allman lacks capacity.

Allman, 49, appeared at the hearing remotely. On a live video feed from his hospital in New Hampshire, he sat in an office chair and spoke only briefly, asking that his former attorney, Steven K.…