A Florida couple are suing a fertility clinic after a mix-up in embryos resulted in them giving birth to a child whom they had no biological relation to.Tiffany Score and Steven Mills have alleged that Orlando-based fertility clinic IVF Life, Inc., and their head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, had implanted an embryo into Score that had no genetic relation to either her or Mills.In 2020, the couple stored three embryos at the clinic to be used in an in vitro fertilization pregnancy.The couple gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on December 11th, 2025, but were confused as to the appearance of the baby, which they described as “displaying the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child.”The couple, who are both Caucasian, filed their lawsuit just over a month later, on January 22, 2026..Later testing found that the child had “no genetic relationship” to either Score or Mills.The couple's lawyer, John Scarola, sent a letter on the couple's behalf to IVF Life demanding that the child be united “with her genetic parents” and give an explanation as to what happened with the couple's embryos.The lawsuit also states that despite the couple forming an “intensely strong emotional bond” with the child and being willing to raise it themselves, they also feel a moral and legal obligation to unite the child with its biological parents.The lawsuit is seeking emergency court intervention to make the IVF alert all affected patients and disclose whether other couples have been the victims of these biological mix-ups.In a notice that has now been deleted, IVF Life said that it is “actively cooperating with an investigation to support one of our patients in determining the source of an error that resulted in the birth of a child who is not genetically related to them.”
