FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A judge has granted a request to hold Anna Nicole Smith's body for DNA testing in the paternity dispute involving the former Playboy playmate's partner, her 5-month-old daughter and another man.

Judge Lawrence Korda granted the request Wednesday in a brief meeting in his chambers with attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the baby's father.

He petitioned the Florida court Tuesday, asking that a California court order for DNA testing filed Friday -- the day after Smith died -- be enforced in Florida.

"We fear that if the body is moved out of state that we may not get appropriate DNA or paternity testing," an attorney representing Birkhead said.

Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, also claims to be the baby's father.

Smith's body remains at the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office under tight security.

Dr. Joshua Perper, chief medical examiner for Broward County, on Tuesday said he took calls from attorneys representing both Stern and Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, asking that the body be released for burial. Perper said no one would get the body unless he gets the OK from a judge.

"We need to hear -- to have a court order -- which will tell us to whom we shall release the body," said Perper.

Stern said he wants to bury the body in the Bahamas next to her son, 20-year-old Daniel Smith, who died Sept. 10, 2006, from a lethal combination of drugs, but Arthur wants her daughter's body to be buried in her home state of Texas.

Smith's Final Film Coming To DVD In May

Smith's final film will be coming soon as a direct-to-DVD release.

Smith helped bankroll the campy comedy "Illegal Aliens," in which she plays one of a trio of space aliens fighting an intergalactic terrorist.

Several theatrical screenings were canceled when Smith died Thursday after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla.

Now, MTI Home Video said it will go ahead with its original plans for a May release for the film it describes as "'Charlie's Angels' goes sci-fi."

Smith was to have been involved in the publicity campaign and the movie was to have been dedicated to her late son. She was a producer of the film and her son was credited as an associate producer.