Even Maury Povich would have trouble figuring out the baby daddy.
Identical twins who had sex with the same woman within four days of each other can’t know for sure who fathered her child, a UK court ruled recently.
Only one of the brothers can be listed on the birth certificate for the child, but right now it is “not possible” to confirm who the biological parent is, the Court of Appeals in London said, according to reports.
The baby’s mother and one of the twins sought court intervention to grant him parental responsibility after the other brother was registered as the tot’s father on the paperwork based on a past court ruling, the Guardian reported.
But Sir Andrew McFarlane, along with two other judges, said earlier this month DNA testing only indicates either sibling could be the baby’s daddy — but is unclear who.
The mother and two brothers were not identified. The baby was only referred to as child P.
It was “plainly not in P’s welfare interest for this ambiguity as to parental responsibility to continue,” McFarlane said.
“Both brothers had had sex” with the woman “within four days of each other in the month that P was conceived,” and that “it is equally likely that each of the brothers is P’s father,” Judge Madeleine Reardon previously ruled, the outlet reported.
McFarlane said the twin initially on the birth register won’t have parental responsibility as the court case drags on.
“It is possible, indeed likely, that by the time P reaches maturity it may be possible for science to identify one father and exclude the other twin, but, for the coming time that cannot be done without very significant cost, and so her ‘truth’ is binary and not a single man,” the judge said.
