Michael Oher speaks to the media throughout the first day of the Carolina Panthers’ offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., April 20, 2015. Oher, the previous NFL deal with recognized for the film “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee courtroom accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of getting him signal papers making them his conservators slightly than his adoptive dad and mom.

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Michael Oher speaks to the media throughout the first day of the Carolina Panthers’ offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., April 20, 2015. Oher, the previous NFL deal with recognized for the film “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee courtroom accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of getting him signal papers making them his conservators slightly than his adoptive dad and mom.

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A Tennessee choose has ordered the tip of the conservatorship between former NFL participant Michael Oher and the Tuohy household, all of whom had been the topic of the Oscar-winning 2009 movie The Blind Side.

Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes mentioned she is ending the 2004 conservatorship, however just isn’t dismissing the case Oher introduced towards the household in August asking them to supply accounting data for his funds over time, according to the Associated Press.

A conservatorship is a authorized appointment permitting a celebration to deal with the monetary and private affairs of one other. The conservatorship between Oher and the Tuohys said that Oher couldn’t signal contracts or make medical choices on his personal.

Gomes mentioned she had by no means seen such a conservatorship used for somebody who just isn’t disabled, and that it ought to have been dissolved a very long time in the past.

“I cannot believe it got done,” she mentioned, in response to the AP.

Oher was a ward of the state and getting into his senior yr as a soccer participant at Briarcrest Christian School close to Memphis when he started residing with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.

The Tuohys mentioned they supposed on adopting him, however as a result of he was over 18 years of age, they introduced him with a conservatorship. Oher alleges that they gave him the impression that by signing it, he could be thought of adopted by the Tuohys.

“Where other parents of Michael’s classmates saw Michael simply as a nice kid in need, Conservators Sean Tuohy and Leigh [Anne] Tuohy saw something else: a gullible young man whose athletic talent could be exploited for their own benefit,” the petition mentioned.

Oher mentioned he discovered in February that he had no authorized, familial relation to the Tuohys.

In August, Oher filed a petition within the Shelby County Probate Court asking for the conservatorship to be dissolved as a result of he was deceived and is now sufficiently old to deal with his personal monetary affairs.

He additionally alleged the Tuohys had been paid thousands and thousands for his or her involvement in The Blind Side, which grossed over $300 million, whereas he was not.

Sean Tuohy instructed The Daily Memphian the household was additionally not paid for the film, however that every member of their household, together with Oher, acquired half of the earnings from the guide the film was primarily based off, which got here out to about $14,000 per particular person.

Martin Singer, an legal professional for the Tuohys mentioned in an announcement to NPR, “The notion that a couple worth hundreds of millions of dollars would connive to withhold a few thousand dollars in profit participation payments from anyone – let alone from someone they loved as a son – defies belief.”