Washington
(ANI):
An
appeal
for
Anna
Nicole
Smith's
18-month-old
daughter
Dannielynnn
to
be
made
the
sole
heir
to
the
late
model's
estate
was
approved
on
Tuesday
Mar
04
by
a
Los
Angeles
judge.
Smith's
estate
executor
Howard
K.
Stern,
had
in
court
papers,
filed
in
Superior
Court
Oct.
18,
2007,
sought
to
clarify
Smith's
intentions
in
her
July
2001
will,
drafted
five
years
before
Dannielynn
Hope's
September
2006
birth.
Smith
had
passed
away
in
February
2007.
"We
and
Mr.
Stern
always
believed
that
Anna
Nicole
never
intended
to
disinherit
her
daughter,"'
People
mag
quoted
Stern's
lawyer,
Bruce
S.
Ross,
as
saying
after
the
March
4th
hearing.
"I'm
pleased
to
say
this
chapter
in
the
saga
is
closed," he
added.
If
all
works
out
fine,
the
toddler
would
be
inheriting
millions
from
the
fortune
of
Smith's
late
husband,
oil
man
J.
Howard
Marshall,
whose
estate
is
still
tied
up
in
litigation
in
the
9th
U.S.
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals.
According
to
Ross,
along
with
the
confirmation
of
Dannielynn
being
Anna
Nicole's
sole
heir,
Judge
Mitchell
L.
Beckloff's
ruling
also
established
a
trust
on
her
behalf
with
Stern
and
Birkhead
as
its
co-trustees.