Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more eggs by sperm from 2 different men within the woman's same menstrual cycle. This rarely occurs but can & does happen. The New Jersey Law Journal put the number of reported paternity cases involving superfecundation at one in every 13,000.
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Odd paternity case: Twins with different fathers
(NEWSER) – In just the third such court case in the country, a New Jersey judge has ruled a man is father to one twin while another man is father to the other. The children's mother named a man, identified as "AS," as the father of her twin girls, born in January 2013, when she applied for public assistance in Passaic County, the Star-Ledger reports. When she acknowledged that she'd had sex with another man within a week of her encounter with AS, a DNA test was conducted. It revealed what the New York Times calls "a tangled web of love and biology." AS had fertilized one egg with 99.9% certainty; the other was fertilized by the other man during the same menstrual cycle. Judge Sohail Mohammed ruled AS must pay child support for only the child he fathered, totaling $28 a week.
Odd paternity case: Twins with different fathers
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