Birkhead free to leave Bahamas with Anna Nicole's baby

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Birkhead, a Los Angeles photographer and former boyfriend of the infant's mother, the late Anna Nicole Smith, has won approval to travel to the U.S. with the seven-month-old baby.

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Dannielynn and her father Larry Birkhead pictured for OK! magazine. He can return with his daughter to the U.S.

Court-ordered DNA tests earlier this month proved Birkhead to be the father of the baby, who could one day be worth a fortune if Smith's estate wins a decades-long battle to inherit from her late oil tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall.

Dannielynn's mother: The late Anna Nicole

Despite the tests, Birkhead has been locked in a custody battle with Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.

Smith's death from an accidental drug overdose on 8 February in Florida sparked a media frenzy, as well as a fight over her remains and then over rights to the guardianship of Dannielynn.

The only condition set by the court, in exchange for granting Birkhead freedom to travel with Dannielynn, was that he return to Nassau with the baby for another formal custody hearing on June 8, the source said.

Birkhead declined to comment on the specifics of the 30-minute hearing, due to limitations imposed by Bahamian court rules.

He told reporters outside the court that he hoped to be leaving with Dannielynn soon, however.

"I guess all I can say really is that it was a good day for me in court," he said.