My sister used to work for the government agency which gets absent fathers to pay child support for their children. She didn't deal with monozygotic twins but her branch once had to. Naturally, it was the subject of quite a lot of gossip in the office and everybody knew about the case.
The crux of it was that a paternity test was useless because the twins had identical DNA. There was no genetic way of proving fatherhood. When it was decided that genetic evidence was inadmissible, the agency was deemed responsible for proving fatherhood some other way. A year later, when my sister left, fatherhood still hadn't been proven and neither man had paid a penny in maintenance.
Personally, I'd have charged each twin half the maintenance and told them that whichever one was the father was responsible for reimbursing his twin each month. The law doesn't work like that, though.
If convicting a twin how do you go about it?
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My sister used to work for the government agency which gets absent fathers to pay child support for their children. She didn't deal with monozygotic twins but her branch once had to. Naturally, it was the subject of quite a lot of gossip in the office and everybody knew about the case.
The crux of it was that a paternity test was useless because the twins had identical DNA. There was no genetic way of proving fatherhood. When it was decided that genetic evidence was inadmissible, the agency was deemed responsible for proving fatherhood some other way. A year later, when my sister left, fatherhood still hadn't been proven and neither man had paid a penny in maintenance.
Personally, I'd have charged each twin half the maintenance and told them that whichever one was the father was responsible for reimbursing his twin each month. The law doesn't work like that, though.