This is usually the other way around, but Anna Nicole Smith is being sued over the paternity her daughter. Larry Birkhead, a former lover, filed the suit in Los Angeles.

The suit is requesting a judge to order Anna Nicole return her daughter Dannie Lynn to California, submit to a paternity test and have mother and child tested for drugs.

According to the statement, Birkhead is “a first time father and he is responding to allegations made by attorney Howard K. Stern on behalf of Anna Nicole Smith” and “believes beyond any doubt that he is the father.” Smith’s lawyer Howard K. Stern announced last week on CNN’s “Larry King Live” that he was the father of the child and that he and Anna Nicole had been in a relationship for some time.

Birkhead appeared live on with Rita Cosby on MSNBC tonight and declared, once again, that he is the father of the little girl. He told Cosby that he is “outraged and angry” and claims that Anna Nicole deliberately fled to the Bahamas to avoid custody and visitation discussions.