A New Jersey dad has been ordered to pay child support for
just one twin after a DNA test revealed that the other baby was fathered by
another man.
Passaic County Judge Sohail Mohammad made the ruling in the
paternity case on Monday, in what is one of only a handful of similar cases
across the country.
It is possible - but rare - for a woman to give birth to
twins with two fathers.
It happens when the woman has sexual intercourse with two
men in the same week - during the same menstrual cycle - and releases two eggs.
An egg is then fertilized by each man.
The case came to light when a Passaic County woman sought
child-support payments from a man she thought was the father of her daughters,
who were born in January 2013. Neither party has been named.
The mother, who was in a relationship with the man at the
time of conceiving, admitted to having a sexual relationship with another man
in the same week, the New Jersey Law Journal reported.
Paternity tests showed the man was almost certainly the
father of one but wasn't the father of the other and he must now pay $28 per
week, for just his daughter.
Mohammad says he found just two other court cases nationally
on such matters.
An academic study in 1997 found that twins have different
fathers in one out of every 13,000 reported paternity cases involving twins.
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