After almost two weeks of relative calm in the custody battle over Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn, the case is back in court.

Larry Birkhead, 34, filed a petition in probate court on Monday to be appointed as the sole guardian of the Estate of 8 month-old Dannielynn Marshall Birkhead. In papers obtained by Us, Birkhead asks the court to name him as guardian “in order to represent his daughter’s interest in the probate proceedings for the Estate of Vickie ...