Anna's Mother Fights Judge's Decision
Anna Nicole Smith's burial site may not be settled yet.
Her mother has filed an emergency motion to stay a Florida judge's decision that would let the attorney for Smith's infant daughter decide where she's buried.
The attorney had chosen the Bahamas. Virgie Arthur wants her daughter to be buried in Texas.
Arthur's attorney has told NBC that Arthur is "the only person to handle the burial."
On Thursday, a sometimes blubbering judge Larry Seidlin gave Richard Milstein, the court-appointed lawyer for Dannielynn, the power to resolve a dispute between Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and Arthur over where to bury Smith.
Anna Nicole Smith: The Latest Photos
Milstein said she would be buried in the Bahamas next to her son, but gave no time frame.
"Everyone is to work equally and together and all the parties are in agreement that Anna deserves the best and the privacy the she sought," said Debra Opri, an attorney for Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend.
The ruling came a full two weeks after Smith died at a Florida hotel at age 39 of still-undetermined causes.
The melodramatic legal fallout from Smith's death shifted Friday from where to bury the former Playboy Playmate to who gets custody of her baby, who could inherit millions.
Attorneys for Birkhead, the photographer who claims to have fathered 5-month-old Dannielynn, asked a Florida family court judge to enforce a California court's order that the infant's DNA be tested to prove paternity.
Both Stern and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also claim to be the father. Stern is listed as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate.
Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda doubted Friday that he had jurisdiction to get involved in the paternity dispute and seemed at a loss as to how the case had landed in his court. He ended the hearing by telling Birkhead's lawyers he would discuss the matter with a California judge and give a ruling "pretty soon."