A Florida couple will raise a baby girl who isn’t genetically theirs after reaching an agreement with the biological parent(s).

Tiffany Score and Steven Mills sued a Florida clinic after discovering their IVF baby was “non-Caucasian.”

The couple sued IVF Life, Inc., and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, for implanting the wrong embryo into Score’s uterus in April 2025. Mills and Score discovered the mixup after the baby was born. A DNA test confirmed their suspicions.

The testing revealed that the baby, named Shea, was 100% South Asian, according to Mills and Score’s attorney. At the time, Mills and Score said they believed Shea should be reunited with her genetic parents.

The couple’s lawsuit led their attorney, Mara Hatfield, to launch a search for baby Shea’s biological parents. The attorney announced they had located Patient 004, who reached an agreement with the couple.

In a court filing, attorney Hatfield wrote that her clients and Patient 004 had “come to a mutually devised custody agreement” that recognizes Score and Mills’ rights as the “permanent custodial parents of their daughter.”

“I’m glad the parties have reached an agreement while this child is relatively young,” Circuit Court Judge Margaret Schreiber said in a hearing on Friday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

In 2020, Score and Mills stored three viable embryos at the clinic for IVF implantation at a later date.

Five years later, Dr. McNichol implanted one of the embryos in Tiffany’s uterus. She gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on Dec. 11, 2025, according to the lawsuit, obtained by Law & Crime.

The new parents immediately knew there was a mixup since they are Caucasian and the baby “displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,” the lawsuit stated.