NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI): A Bahamian judge kept in place an injunction prohibiting Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, from leaving the country.
Judge Stephen Isaacs also ordered attorneys in the custody case to be in his courtroom Monday after conducting closed-door hearings on custody questions for more than two hours in family court, The Miami Herald said.
Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who is seeking guardianship of the girl, filed the suit asking the judge to remove the child from the house where she lives with Howard K. Stern.
The baby, who was born in the Bahamas in September, is the subject of a paternity dispute. While Stern, Smith's partner, is listed as the father on the birth certificate, several men, including Smith's ex-lover, Larry Birkhead, are claiming to be the child's father.
Birkhead has filed a paternity suit in California, as has Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Meanwhile, a Florida appeals court on Friday granted an emergency stay to Anna Nicole Smith's mother, keeping Smith's body in Florida a while longer.
The ruling means Smith's body will not be taken to the Bahamas for burial, as decided by Richard Milstein, the court-appointed guardian of Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. He made his decision after a Broward County judge ruled that the child should get Smith's body.
A motion to stay Judge Larry Seidlin's order was filed Friday in Broward County Court and the 4th District Court of Appeals by attorneys for Virgie Arthur, Smith's mother, MSNBC said. Arthur has said that, as Smith's mother, she should get the body.
Arthur said she wants to bury Smith in Texas, her home state.
How the stay affects a custody case scheduled for Monday in the Bahamas is not known. |
