J.W.T. v. S.T.

CASANUEVA, Judge.

J.W.T. (the Father) appeals from an order dismissing with prejudice his petition to establish paternity. In considering Ap-pellee S.T.’s (the Mother’s) motion to dismiss filed in response to the petition, the circuit court looked beyond the allegations of the petition. For this reason, we reverse.

The Father claims that he and the Mother are the parents of a daughter born in November 2001. At the time of the conception and birth of their daughter, he and the Mother were not married, either to each other or to anyone else. In 2006, the Mother commenced a paternity action…