Dixon v. Maddox

The trial court dismissed the complaint in this paternity action with prejudice because “alternative pleading alleging that one of two or one of a group of potential fathers is the actual father is not proper or appropriate in a paternity action” and because the allegations “concede that said plaintiff is unable to determine the father of the child in question.” It was error to dismiss the complaint on this ground. Holliman v. Green, 439 So.2d 955 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).

We find the complaint deficient in other respects, however. For example, it wholly fails to allege any ultimate facts…