Family Law
Judge's unusual paternity case ruling: Dad fathered one twin, but not the other
There was good news and bad news when DNA test results arrived for a man who contested paternity of twin girls a New Jersey woman said he had fathered.
He was the father of one of the girls, but not the other. In what is said to be the first such ruling in New Jersey, Judge Sohail Mohammed held the unidentified man responsible for paying child support for only the one girl he actually fathered, according to New Jersey Advance Media and the New Jersey Law Journal (sub. req.).
The judge said he had found only two such cases elsewhere in the country.
The amount of child support awarded for the one twin in the Passaic County Superior Court case was $28 per week.
