Dannielynn's Daddy Ready for Reveal?

Father's Day may come early this year for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

After a one-week break from proceedings, a hearing in the ongoing paternity battle over the tot between Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead is set to take place in the Bahamas Tuesday, and speculation is running high that it may finally be the day Anna Nicole Smith's six-month-old daughter daddy drama is settled.

Thanks to a sweeping gag order imposed under the strict Bahamian legal code, none of the parties involved in the litigation can confirm exactly what's on the docket for the hearing—but Stern has run out of legal stall tactics, and both Birkhead and Dannielynn's DNA samples have already gone under the microscope.

Last week, Stern dropped his last-ditch motion to block the results from being entered into evidence. Stern, who is listed on the Bahamian birth certificate as the father of the infant, was not required to submit to a DNA test.

The tests themselves are reportedly being conducted by the DNA Diagnostics Center in Fairfield, Ohio, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Baird. Baird is expected to authenticate his results in court on Tuesday and disclose whether the soft-spoken Kentucky photographer is a match and whether Dannielynn will append Birkhead to her moniker.

TMZ.com, citing an "unimpeachable" source, reports that should Birkhead prove to be the father, Stern will not contest Birkhead's custody. Instead, the lawyer will purportedly do everything in his power to keep the tot away from Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur—at this point, her only noncontested relation. Separate from the paternity battle, Arthur filed paperwork Friday to be named Dannielynn's legal guardian.

"I think the thing we both want to do is what's best for Dannielynn," Birkhead said in an interview with both MSNBC and Access Hollywood. "And it does not do Dannielynn justice for her name to be out there and all these fights...we both just agreed that there would be no fights, you know, after the results are revealed."

Birhead launched his paternity bid in October, just days after Dannielynn's birth, with the battle being waged in courts in both California and the Bahamas. As Smith's sole surviving child, Dannielynn stands to inherit the bulk of her mother's estate, which could be in the hundreds of millions. Smith died Feb. 8 of an accidental overdose of prescription medication.

Should Birkhead's genes not synch up with Dannielynn's, it will still leave Stern with a legal challenge from late-coming fatherhood hopeful Prince Frederic Von Anhalt. It's unclear whether Von Anhalt's DNA, voluntarily submitted last month, has also been tested. (For a guide to all the major players, check out our Anna Nicole cheat sheet.)

"I came here with a computer bag and I might leave with a diaper bag," Birkhead said. "It's something I've been looking forward to and building up towards, but you just never know the feeling until you get your baby in your arms and you're on the plane out of here."

Stern wasn't immediately available for comment. His new high-powered Los Angeles-based lawyer, L. Lin Wood, declined to comment on the paternity battle, but he did issue a lengthy statement suggesting that Stern was ready to go on the legal offensive in other matters.

"My representation of Mr. Stern will focus on those individuals and entities guilty of making false accusations of criminal conduct against him related to the tragic deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and her son, Daniel," Wood said.

"Mr. Stern is an innocent individual who has never been charged with any crime but finds himself on trial in the media...The accusations that Mr. Stern is guilty of murder have been recklessly and maliciously invented and published by individuals and entities to advance their personal agendas with the complicity of a ratings-driven media...Mr. Stern has nothing to hide."