re: Michael Oher files lawsuit against the Tuohys (adoptive family)

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Everything would be under Tennessee law

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Right. I forgot the Tuohys Taco empire was based in Memphistan.

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Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock

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You hate to see it. Leftist virtue signalers caught up in a farce.

A lot of y’all didn’t read the article and are using only your knowledge from a movie you watched 15 years ago.

Clearly states he was already a well-established Allstate lineman that was already attending the school. The Tuoghy’s weren’t paying his tuition. Yes he was bouncing around from house to house, but looks like they saw dollar signs in the kid and took him in permanently.

They then steered him to sign with their home team and convinced an 18-year-old from a broken home with no concept of law or finances that a conservatorship is essentially an adoption of someone 18 or older, which was a complete lie.

They cut him a little money from the movie, but sounds like they forgot to tell him about the royalties they were getting. While they had an established entertainment agent, his cut of the movie was negotiated by their family friend lawyer, who also set up the conservatorship.

All extremely shady. I’m sorry if the guy who grew up with a drug addict mother and extremely messed up life didn’t turn into a nice person, but if this article is true, he deserves to rake them over the coals. Taking in a kid for two years, just to have him sign with your alma mater doesn’t make you entitled to millions of his money, which, even if the royalties were split five ways, it would’ve been millions for him. Sounds like he was OK with that deal, because he thought he was a part of the family, when really they saw him as the help

Sean Touhy responded.

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I don't know about the laws in MS then relative to adult adoptions, but you can adopt an adult if the adult consents currently.

Sean Tuohy is defending his family from "insulting" allegations.

The Tuohy patriarch—played by Tim McGraw in the 2009 movie The Blind Side—spoke out to explain his side after former NFL player Michael Oher filed legal paperwork alleging the family had lied about adopting him as a teen.

Michael, now 37, alleges Sean and wife Leigh Anne Tuohy (played by Sandra Bullock onscreen) "falsely advised" him to sign a document in 2004 that made them his conservators—giving them the legal power to complete business deals in his name—after he turned 18 years old, according to the petition obtained by E! News Aug. 14. The athlete accuses the Tuohys of having "enriched themselves" and profited from the "lie" by taking their life story to the big screen.

Sean reacted to the filing Aug. 14, telling the Daily Memphian that his family is "devastated" over the allegations.

"It's upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children," he said. "But we're going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16."

The Blind Side grossed $300 million, with Michael's paperwork stating that the movie paid the Tuohys and their children Sean Jr. and Collins $225,000 each, on top of 2.5 percent of the sports film's "defined net proceeds."

Yet, Sean told the outlet, "We didn't make any money off the movie."

The sports commentator then clarified that The Blind Side book author Michael Lewis "gave us half of his share."

"Everybody in the family got an equal share, including Michael. It was about $14,000, each," the 63-year-old continued. "We were never offered money; we never asked for money."

Sean noted, "I will say it's upsetting that people would think I would want to make money off any of my children."

As for Michael's claim about the conservatorship, Sean told the Daily Memphian the legal arrangement was allegedly meant to satisfy the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), which Michael played football for while at the University of Mississippi.

"They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family," Sean said. "I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you're planning to go to Ole Miss—or even considering Ole Miss—we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.' We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn't adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship."

He added that he would be willing to end the conservatorship if Michael would like.

For his part, Michael feels he was "falsely advised by the Tuohys that because he was over the age of eighteen, that the legal action to adopt Michael would have to be called a ‘conservatorship' but it was, for all intents and purposes, an adoption," per his filing.

He said he only "discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment" in February 2023, when he learned the document was not the "equivalent" of adoption papers and that the conservatorship "to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys."

The document accused the Tuohys of allowing Michael and the public to believe they adopted him "and have used that untruth to gain financial advantages for themselves."

The filing added, "All monies made in said manner should in all conscience and equity be disgorged and paid over to the said ward, Michael Oher."

E! News has reached out to reps for Michael, the Tuohys and the NCAA for comment and has not heard back.