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more biased news - this time from the Bahama Journal:

April 17, 2007
Stern Sues Lawyer
By Quincy Parker
The legal melee sparked by the death of the late American celebrity Anna Nicole Smith continues to sprout tentacles: the lawsuit filed by Ms. Smith’s lawyer Howard K. Stern against John O’Quinn – lawyer for Ms. Smith’s mother – proves even the lawyers are not above the fray.....

The weekend has come and gone without word of a custody agreement being struck between Larry Birkhead (the father of Ms. Smith’s baby) and Mrs. Arthur.

The two were to have met over the weekend, without lawyers and away from the glare of the media, to try and hash out a custody arrangement. Ms. Smith had named Mr. Stern as the child’s father, but DNA evidence has proven Mr. Birkhead to be the father.

Mr. Stern has said he won’t fight Mr. Birkhead over custody, but also that he’ll work to ensure that Mr. Birkhead gets sole custody of the child. In fact, he said on Friday that he would have already signed the formal order granting Mr. Birkhead full custody of Dannielynn, but lawyers for Mr. Birkhead and Mrs. Arthur asked the court for a continuance without that order being signed.

While she was alive, Ms. Smith vowed repeatedly that her mother, Mrs. Arthur, would have no part in her daughter’s life. The sides are to meet in the Supreme Court again on Friday.

http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=12316

personal comment: one wonders why Larry hasn't alligned himself with the thompson/shelleys instead of Stern - does he have animosity towards them that they aided Anna? too bad he doesn't put that aside and get on the 'winning' team..

older news:

12th April

Lawyer Says Paternity May End House Battle

By Quincy Parker

Larry Birkhead’s confirmation as the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter Dannielynn paves the way for an end to the legal standoff centred on the Eastern Road mansion called ‘Horizons,’ according to the lawyer for one claimant to the house’s title.

Godfrey ‘Pro’ Pinder told the Journal that his client, Ms. Smith’s ex-lover G. Ben Thompson, would "work with" Mr. Birkhead.

He has been locked in a dispute with lawyers for Howard K. Stern, Ms. Smith’s live-in lawyer, over who owns the residence where Ms. Smith and Mr. Stern lived with Dannielynn until Ms. Smith’s sudden death in February.

Mr. Stern and Dannielynn still live at Horizons.

Mr. Thompson claims he owns the home, since Ms. Smith never fulfilled the terms under which he supposedly turned it over to her, and Mr. Stern and lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate support Ms. Smith’s claim the house was a gift.

Mr. Pinder said that the substantiation of Mr. Birkhead’s paternity claim adds a new dimension to the wrangling over the house.

"I believe that he (Mr. Birkhead) would also get temporary custody. If he gets temporary custody then he should replace Howard K. Stern in the house. You don’t need to have two fathers in the house," Mr. Pinder said.

"We shall invite Howard out of the house, and leave Larry in. We’ll work with Larry. Larry knows who the owner is; he’ll eventually probably do the right thing and turn it back over to us."

http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=12270