A new mother has given birth to baby twins who have two different fathers.
The incredible case was revealed after the woman, identified only as T.M., named her current boyfriend as the father of her twins.
However, T.M. admitted before maternity papers were signed that she had actually slept with a different man a week after she believed she conceived with her boyfriend.
A paternity test was carried out and it was revealed that the two men had each fathered one of the twins, who are now toddlers.
Now, the woman's original partner only has to pay out child support for one of the children.
New Jersey Law Journal reported that Passaic County Judge Sohail Mohammad made the ruling in the paternity case.
Paternity tests showed the woman's former boyfriend was almost certainly the father of one twin, but wasn't the father of the other.
Therefore, he only has to pay out $28 per week for his daughter.
According to Judge Mohammad that he found just two other court cases of a woman giving birth to twins from separate dads, which occurs in one out of every 13,000 reported paternity cases involving twins.
It seems medically impossible, but a woman can actually give birth to twins with two fathers when she has sex with two different men in the same week.
In a process known as "heteropaternal superfecundation," the rare incident occurs when a woman releases two eggs during her menstrual cycle and different men fertilize one egg each. It is a more common occurrence when the same father fertilizes two eggs during separate incidences of sex.
Amazingly, it is also possible for a woman to give birth to twins who have been conceived weeks or even months apart, if she continues to ovulate even after she has become pregnant, in a process called "superfetation."
It is claimed that superfetation is common in some species of animals, but is extremely rare in humans.
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