Paternity Challenges
In a Florida court to decide Smith's final resting place, the matter of paternity was also to be settled. Birkhead petitoned the court to ask Howard K. Stern to submit to a DNA test on February 20, 2007 but at the time Howard K. Stern stated he was not willing to do so in a closed conference with Judge Seidlin. The judge had put off the paternity question until after the issue of the location of Anna’s burial was decided.
At the request of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, a Bahamian judge issued a temporary injunction on February 13, 2007, preventing Stern from taking Smith's daughter out of The Bahamas.
On February 22, 2007 a Florida judge awarded custody of Smith's body to Miami lawyer Richard Milstein, the guardian ad litem for Dannielynn.
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