Couple Sues Florida IVF Clinic After Giving Birth to Another Family Baby

A heartbroken couple from Florida is taking legal action against an IVF clinic after they say a major mix-up led to them giving birth to a child who is not biologically theirs.

Tiffany Score and Steven Mills turned to IVF Life, which runs the Fertility Centre of Orlando in Longwood, Florida, hoping to start or grow their family. The couple, both white and Caucasian, went through the IVF process, and in April they welcomed what they believed was their baby girl.

But from the moment they saw her, something didn’t feel right—the baby had features that appeared racially non-Caucasian, which didn’t match either parent. Suspicious and worried, they arranged for genetic testing. The results confirmed their worst fear: the child was not biologically related to them at all.

Tiffany and Steven say they reached out to the clinic, run by Dr. Milton McNichol, multiple times for answers or explanation, but received no response. On January 22, 2026, they filed a lawsuit against the facility.

In a statement about the situation, the couple expressed their deep love for the baby while also grappling with the tough reality: “We would hope to be able to continue to raise her ourselves with confidence that she won’t be taken away from us. At the same time, we are aware that we have a moral obligation to find and notify her biological parents, as it is in her best interest that her genetic parents are provided the option to raise her as their own.”

Their attorney, Jack Scarola, added: “They have fallen in love with this child. They would be thrilled in the knowledge that they could raise this child. But their concern is that this is someone else’s child, and someone could show up at any time and claim the baby and take that baby away from them.”

The couple believes one of the three fertilized eggs implanted during the procedure may have belonged to another patient. They’re now calling on the clinic to notify every other patient who had embryos stored at the facility around the time of Tiffany’s implantation and to cover the cost of genetic testing for those families to check for any similar errors.

In response, the clinic released a statement saying: “They were 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.”