Former NFL player Michael Oher claimed that he was never legally adopted (3 Viewers)

[DavidM]

My goodness, the rush to judgment here on BOTH sides is just so emblematic of the sad state of public discourse these days. Maybe the Touhys are parasites, or maybe they're victims, or maybe they're something in-between. But to make judgments based on a court pleading is just ridiculous.

It's funny how scum-sucking lawyers aren't so bad when they file a pleading that aligns with someone's pre-conceived notions...and, yes, anyone taking this in a partisan politics direction will be infracted, so please don't do it.

The only one thing I do know is that this is a really sad situation.

Understand, I intentionally worded my post as a counter to the assertion that Oher is broke and motivated out of pure financial self-interest. But I agree with you that we don’t know important details yet.

 

[Doug B]

Disney has nothing to do with it since it was a WB film.

Thank you.

Why do people keep bringing up Disney?

 

[Saint Jack]

Thank you.

Why do people keep bringing up Disney?

It has the aura of a Disney style movie.

 

[Dago]

According to the Tuohy's attorney, Oher has attempted this before and his attorneys have withdrawn once they saw the records. Regardless of who is wrong or right, it's a sad situation. Obviously the movie isn't completely accurate, but it was still a great inspirational story

‘The Blind Side’ Family Attorney Marty Singer Says Michael Oher Attempted “Shakedown” Before Going To Court, Calls Claims “Offensive”

A day after Michael Oher, the former NFL player and subject of the 2009 movie The Blind Side, alleged in a court filing that the family who took him in as a young player had deceived him about being adopted and deprived him of earnings from the Oscar-nominated film, the family has hit back. A …

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[guidomerkinsrules]

Thank you.

Why do people keep bringing up Disney?

It’s the way some people try to say woke without saying woke

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

‘The Blind Side’ Family Attorney Marty Singer Says Michael Oher Attempted “Shakedown” Before Going To Court, Calls Claims “Offensive”

A day after Michael Oher, the former NFL player and subject of the 2009 movie The Blind Side, alleged in a court filing that the family who took him in as a young player had deceived him about being adopted and deprived him of earnings from the Oscar-nominated film, the family has hit back. A …

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The evidence – documented in profit participation checks and studio accounting statements – is clear: over the years, the Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from The Blind Side. Even recently, when Mr. Oher started to threaten them about what he would do unless they paid him an eight-figure windfall, and, as part of that shakedown effort refused to cash the small profit checks from the Tuohys, they still deposited Mr. Oher’s equal share into a trust account they set up for his son.

This is what I was saying in the other thread. Sometimes you can’t really get to the bottom of a he said/she said dispute - but sometimes there are bank records.

Whatever Oher and/or the Tuohys got from the movie is not going to be a big mystery for the judge to solve.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

when I hear "they are worth a couple hundred million dollars, why would they withhold thousands of dollars?"
If that's the defense they are going with, it's laughable.. millionaires are usually the first to do something like that..

 

[HoustonSaint68]

...millionaires are usually the first to do something like that..

And you say that based on??

 

[DaveXA]

when I hear "they are worth a couple hundred million dollars, why would they withhold thousands of dollars?"
If that's the defense they are going with, it's laughable.. millionaires are usually the first to do something like that..

I don't necessarily buy that. They aren't any more or less likely to do that than anyone else. But I would say that if you have 100s of millions in assets, the dynamics are different. $1000 to him isn't gonna have the same meaning as someone living paycheck to paycheck.

That said I don't really like the argument that $100 million or whatever they're worth means they wouldn't do that.

I'd rather focus on the facts of the case and apparently this isn't the first time they've had issues over this. If it's already been litigated to some degree before, Oher might not have a lot of recourse here.

I do hope they can get it sorted out, but money makes normal people do crazy sheet sometimes.

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

The family is being accused of lying to a kid (at the time) and misleading him into thinking he was adopted when he was signing himself into a conservatorship.
That’s CEO greed.

Accused of is one thing, doing it is another. I still don't get how he thought at his age he was under a conservatorship.

Seems like Mr. Oher is running out of money and looking for a new revenue str

It’s the way some people try to say woke without saying woke

Woke: just sounds like a collection of letters assembled to fit a narrative.

 

[Madmarsha]

One thing: "Mr. Oher, why weren't you using the name Michael Tuohy if you believed you were legally adopted?"

Beyond that, do I believe the Tuohys exploited the situation for their own gain? Absolutely. But at this point, I'm not sure he's not still being manipulated by people who want to "help" him.

Also technically this is a petition filed in probate court to terminate the conservatorship and asking for a full accounting of monies earned in his name. This sort of seems to be only about the money earned from the movie, not the money he earned from his NFL contract. A conservatorship wouldn't just be for one specific purpose, it should have impacted his entering into his professional contracts.

 

[DaveXA]

Accused of is one thing, doing it is another. I still don't get how he thought at his age he was under a conservatorship.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought Oher assumed he was adopted and didn't realize he was bound by conservancy until recently.

Whether he actually understood or was duped by the family or whatever, I don't know.

 

[Madmarsha]

An estate and probate attorney chimes in on this matter at 3:25 who says she's actually "went to the file" of the Tennessee court records. She touches on the subject of guardianship, which I had a question about, briefly, and indicates that she couldn't find that the Touhys ever actually had "legal authority" which was another of my questions.

In the court of public opinion, Michael has already won and the Touhys have already lost. Because I can look at this objectively, legally, the opposite may be true (except for getting the conservatorship, to the extent it legally exists, terminated) regardless how I feel personally about the Touhys.

But regarding any bonhomie between Oher and the Tuohys, it's a lose-lose.

 

[itztime]

It’s the way some people try to say woke without saying woke

Sure it doesn’t mean a fairytale, everyone doesn’t have an agenda all the time?

 

[Madmarsha]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought Oher assumed he was adopted and didn't realize he was bound by conservancy until recently.

Whether he actually understood or was duped by the family or whatever, I don't know.

What I question is whether he understood the conservancy, as he was very young and, let's face it, most of us here don't understand it; but I don't think he was completely unaware of it. But it looks like what he has to prove now in court is if they utilized it to his financial detriment.