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The couple at the center of an embryo mix-up case involving a Seminole County fertility clinic will raise the baby girl the woman gave birth to in December even though it is not their biological child, according to an agreement they have reached with the genetic parents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m glad the parties have reached an agreement while this child is relatively young,\u201d Circuit Court Judge Margaret Schreiber said during a court Monday.<\/p>\n

According to the \u201cmutually devised custody agreement,\u201d Steven Mills and Tiffany Score will \u201ccontinue as the permanent custodial parents of their daughter,\u201d the couple\u2019s attorney Mara Hatfield said in a court document filed Friday.<\/p>\n

In April, Mills and Score announced they had learned the identity of their daughter\u2019s biological parents and made it clear, as they have since their case became national news, that they wished to continue raising the baby girl.<\/p>\n

But at that time it was not clear if the other couple would try to seek custody, and their rights to do so were murky under Florida law.<\/p>\n

The identities of the genetic parents of the six-month old girl are being kept private, according to the document.<\/p>\n

Score and Mills used the Longwood-based Fertility Center of Orlando for in-vitro fertilization to become parents. But soon after Score gave birth, the couple realized that their baby girl was not their biological child, given that she is of another race.<\/p>\n

They said they loved their baby and wanted to continue to raise her but also sued the clinic, seeking to find the child\u2019s biological parents and to learn the fate of their own embryos frozen at the facility.<\/p>\n

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The couple had three embryos frozen in 2020. The first that was implanted ended in a miscarriage, and the clinic says one remains. But that leaves one unaccounted for, as the wrong embryo was implanted into Score in April 2025, resulting in the daughter she gave birth to in late 2025.<\/p>\n

Nothing in the new agreement suggests the couple has learned the fate of that missing embryo, including whether it was wrongly implanted in another woman as a result of a separate mix-up by the clinic.<\/p>\n

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In a April statement, Mills and Score said they realize they may never get an answer from the now-closed clinic they accused of sloppy work. \u201cQuestions about the disposition of our own embryos are still unanswered and are even more unlikely to ever be answered,\u201d the statement said. \u201cOnly one thing is as absolutely certain as it was on the day our daughter was born \u2014 we will love and be this child\u2019s parents forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fertility clinic admitted that Score had been implanted with an embryo from another couple \u2014 that mother was known as Patient 004 \u2014 not with one created with her egg and Mills\u2019 sperm.<\/p>\n

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As a result of a lawsuit filed by Score and Mills, the clinic conducted extensive DNA testing of other embryos created at the same time as Score\u2019s and Mills\u2019.<\/p>\n

Patient 004 was identified this year as the biological mother of the girl, primarily because she was the clinic\u2019s only other patient in March 2020, when Score and Mills had embryos created and frozen at the clinic.<\/p>\n

The two couples have met in person in recent weeks to discuss their next steps, including who should receive custody of the girl.<\/p>\n

Also, according to Friday\u2019s court document, Score and Mills have secured another fertility center to receive what the Fertility Center of Orlando said was the couple\u2019s remaining frozen embryo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat embryo will be tested for parentage and then the Plaintiffs [Score and Mills] will determine next steps,\u201d Hatfield stated in the court document.<\/p>\n

The testing should take up to six weeks to complete. However, there is a chance that that third embryo could be genetically tied to Patient 004, Hatfield said. Or \u201cthere is a minor risk\u201d that the embryo could be genetically tied to either the couple or Patient 004, she said. In that case, the case would go back to court to compel the clinic to find out whose embryo it is.<\/p>\n

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