Posted By: Tom Hustler

by Joal RyanMon Nov 13, 12:04 PM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) - You know your life is complicated when you need a back-up house. 
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Welcome to the world of Anna Nicole Smith. 

The former E! reality star is in the market for a new house in the Bahamas, reports say, because a legal war is being waged over her other new house in the Bahamas, and should she lose that war, she'll need another new home to preserve her legal residency in the Caribbean country. 

All this comes on the heels of Smith giving birth to her daughter, losing her son, formally declaring love for her lawyer, fighting off a paternity challenge from a former boyfriend, falling ill with pneumonia, sharing her Cesarean section with TV viewers, etc. 

To recap: Anna Nicole Smith's life is complicated.

The latest complication--i.e., the housing matter--escalated last week when the man who wants Smith evicted from her current residence ordered the power shut off there.  

The electricity was restored within hours, but Smith's camp was not appeased.  

"They're trying shenanigans that are totally inappropriate," said Wayne Munroe, per the Associated Press. Munroe is a Smith attorney, though not the one with whom she exchanged commitment vows. 

On Monday, Munroe made it sound as if Smith was hedging her bets with regard to the housing dispute with G. Ben Thompson. 

Thompson is a South Carolina real-estate developer, and former Smith boyfriend, although not the former Smith boyfriend who is suing to be declared the father of Smith's newborn girl, Dannielynn.  

Briefly, Thompson says: (a) he's the owner of Smith's current $1 million residence; (b) she's in arrears to him on the mortgage; and, because of all this, (c) she's "unlawfully occup[ying]" the house, in the words of his attorney, according to the A.P. 

Briefly, Smith's camp says that the Bahamian Supreme Court should decide if Smith is the home's legal owner. 

Smith has lived in the house known as Horizons since September, the same month the 38-year-old model/pitchwoman gave birth to Dannielynn, endured the death of adult son Daniel, and declared that Howard K. Stern, the lawyer with whom she did exchange vows, was the father of her new baby. 

Any new house that Smith buys would need to be big enough for the Smith nuclear family, which currently consists of Smith, Stern and Dannielynn. Any house that Smith buys also would need to be worth at least $500,000, apparently part of the price tag for permanent residency in the Bahamas. 

If one lawyer gets his way, however, not even the right kind of $500,000 house would keep Smith in the Bahamas. 

Fayne Thompson, a Bahamian attorney, has charged that Smith's immigration papers were neither completed nor handled properly, the country's Freeport News has reported.  

"How then, in my mind, can Anna Nicole Smith afford to have permanent residence in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas?" Thompson recently asked on a radio talk show, the paper said. 

Whether or not Smith departs the Bahamas, the attorney for Larry Birkhead, the former boyfriend who does claim paternity of Dannielynn, has said Smith will have to answer to that legal battle, too.  

There was no word if Smith was in the market for a dull moment.

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