{"id":166953,"date":"2026-02-24T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166953\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:19:12","slug":"central-florida-couple-heads-to-court-tuesday-in-ivf-mix-up-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166953\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida couple heads to court Tuesday in IVF mix-up case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Central Florida couple at the center of an IVF mix-up is scheduled to be in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple is suing the Fertility Center of Orlando after alleging the clinic failed to identify the biological parents of their child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The legal action follows the birth of a baby whose race is different from either parent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple filed the lawsuit against the Longwood-based fertility clinic last month to address the discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The emergency hearing was requested through a recent motion filed by the couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Legal documents allege that the facility failed to identify the child\u2019s biological parents to the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Representatives for the Fertility Center of Orlando submitted a letter to the court last week regarding the dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the document, the clinic stated it would explain the protocol for its investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The facility also emphasized that the process will be conducted while safeguarding the privacy of all individuals involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Central Florida couple at the center of an IVF mix-up is scheduled to be in court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79331,147,79332,28,30,29,10448],"class_list":["post-166953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-biological-parents","tag-central-florida","tag-fertility-center-of-orlando","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-legal-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}