{"id":2003879,"date":"2023-08-17T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-blind-side-couple-announces-plan-to-end-conservatorship-with-michael-oher\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:27:35","slug":"the-blind-side-couple-announces-plan-to-end-conservatorship-with-michael-oher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-blind-side-couple-announces-plan-to-end-conservatorship-with-michael-oher\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Side couple to terminate conservatorship with Michael Oher."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-blind-side-couple-announces-plan-to-end-conservatorship-with-michael-oher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sean and\u200d Leigh Anne Tuohy to End Conservatorship \u200cwith Michael Oher<\/h2>\n<p>Sean and Leigh\u2063 Anne Tuohy \u2063have made the decision to terminate the conservatorship between them and Michael Oher,\u2063 just days after Oher \u2063filed\u200d a \u2063lawsuit claiming that he was never adopted by the \u2064Tuohy\u200c family.<\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s lawyer, Randall\u2064 Fishman, announced on Wednesday that the Tuohys will\u2063 enter a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-removes-campaign-ad-over-link-to-fox-news\/\" title=\"Facebook Removes Campaign Ad Over Link to Fox News\">consent order<\/a> \u2062to bring an end to the \u200cconservatorship. Attorneys for the family have\u2062 also revealed that the \u2063family and Oher have been estranged from\u200b each other for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-funding-startup-looking-to-cut-down-methane-emission-from-cows\/\" title=\"Bill Gates Funding Startup Looking to Cut Down Methane Emission From Cows\">approximately 10 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Family Lawyer Speaks Out<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Farese, \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyer-bruce-castor-impeachment-managers-presented-nothing-new\/\" title=\"Trump Lawyer Bruce Castor: Impeachment Managers Presented Nothing New\">lawyer representing<\/a> the Tuohy family,\u200c expressed \u2062that Oher has become increasingly \u2062vocal and threatening over the past \u2062decade. He described the\u2064 lawsuit and its aftermath as &#8220;devastating for the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s\u200b lawyers argue that Oher was well aware that he was not adopted \u2064by \u200cthe family, \u200dciting Oher&#8217;s own book,\u200c &#8220;I Beat the Odds: From Homeless, to the \u2064Blind \u2063Side, and Beyond,&#8221;\u200c published in 2011. In \u200bthe book,\u200b Oher refers to the Tuohys as his conservators on three separate occasions. This \u2063contradicts Oher&#8217;s\u2063 claim in his lawsuit that he only discovered this year that his conservatorship with\u200c the Tuohys did not provide him with a familial\u2064 relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Oher filed a petition in a Tennessee court, alleging \u2062that the\u200c family had \u2062concocted a lie \u200bto enrich themselves at his expense. He claimed that the Tuohy \u2063family members made millions of\u200c dollars through business deals\u200b by deceiving him into\u200d becoming their conservator. Oher signed the \u2064conservatorship paperwork after turning 18 in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u200c lie\u200b of \u2062Michael&#8217;s adoption is one upon\u200c which Co-Conservators \u200cLeigh Anne Tuohy and\u2064 Sean Tuohy have enriched \u2063themselves at \u200cthe \u200bexpense of their Ward, the \u2063undersigned Michael Oher,&#8221; stated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-blind-side-couple-announces-plan-to-end-conservatorship-with-michael-oher\/\" title=\"Blind Side couple to terminate conservatorship with Michael Oher.\">14-page petition submitted<\/a> in a probate court in Shelby\u2064 County.<\/p>\n<p>The petition filed by Oher seeks to terminate the\u200d conservatorship\u2062 and\u200d demands that he receives his \u200bfair share of the wages earned by the Tuohy family using his name.\u2064 Attorneys are \u200dalso seeking an injunction to prevent the Tuohy family from further exploiting his name.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Side, a film released in 2009 featuring\u2064 Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, grossed approximately $309 million on a\u200b $29 \u200cmillion budget.\u2064 Shockingly, none of \u2063the profits from the film were shared with Oher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The\u200c Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy plan to terminate their conservatorship over Michael Oher, following his recent lawsuit alleging they never officially adopted him. Their lawyer, Randall Fishman, confirmed that the Tuohys will seek a consent order to dissolve the conservatorship. The family&#8217;s attorneys are involved in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}