Posted on 08/14/2023 3:53:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Regardless of that, I still don’t think there would have been any movie made about the Tuohy family if they had never taken Oher in. They’d have been just another family, and there simply wouldn’t have been a story.
This is clearly Tabitha Soren’s fault...
do you not do what you say you will? do you not tell the person if you change plan about what you told them you would do?
age doesn’t matter, principle and integrity matter.
It seems, Michael was told one thing by Touhy’s, then given papers to sign and told it was same as what they spoke of but worded different.
someone’s lying.
Obviouly. That's the whole point -they took Michael Oher into their family.
If you look at her website etc it says they adopted him. Misleading?
You're assuming they did. Conservatorships are granted only by the court. They're not a document you can print out, sign, and it's all fair and square....There would have been no need for a Conservatorship by that time, so where's the court record if one was granted?
Good points. The conservatorship doesn't make sense, unless you were trying to rip him off. Wouldn't be the first athlete people tried to take advantage of.
The deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.
In the past, the Tuohys have denied making much money from the movie, saying they received a flat fee for the story and did not reap any of the movie's profits. And what they did earn, they added, was shared with Oher.
"We divided it five ways," the Tuohys wrote in their 2010 book, "In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving."
Oher's court petition says he never received any money from the movie, even though he long suspected that others were profiting, according to his attorney, J. Gerard Stranch IV. Whenever Oher asked questions, he did not get straight answers, his attorney said.
And since the film's success coincided with the start of his lucrative NFL career in 2009, Oher did not take the time to fully investigate the deal until after he retired in 2016, Stranch said. Oher eventually hired a lawyer who helped him uncover the details surrounding the movie deal and his legal connection to the people he believed were his adoptive parents. His lawyer unearthed the conservatorship document in February, and Oher came to the painful realization that the Tuohys had not adopted him.
He long suspected? But he didn't bring it up until he was 37, and 7 years after his NFL career ended? He would have had more than enough money to hire a lawyer and pursue a case while playing for the NFL. I don't get it. It smells. If the family was trying to rip him off, where's the Judge who would have approved this Conservatorship in 2004? What would be their reason to pursue a Conservatorship for a kid whose NFL future was unknown at the time?
Oher had been in foster home care since he was 7 years old. When did he officially leave supervision of social services? One would think that someone from social services would have been involved at the time he moved into the Touhy's home. Social Services would have had to officially discharge him from their care at some point when he reached a certain age. We don't know when that was. I just don't understand how, at the age of 18 or almost 18, the court would have left him in the dark about a Conservatorship that was being sought by people he wasn't even related to. Too many questions unanswered. Hopefully, the truth will come out.
To rip him off for millions.
He was a 5 star lineman recruit. I don't know if you grasp what that means, but they did.
...when you consider the average recruiting cycle since the Class of 2017 has included 16,602 players and during that time 1,294 players have been drafted.
Over that period, five-star recruits make up only .7% of the overall recruiting cycle. Yet, 117 five-star recruits have been selected and the draft rate over the past five years is 63%.
It wasn't the gamble you seem to think it was when they put this scam in motion.
I just don't understand how, at the age of 18 or almost 18, the court would have left him in the dark about a Conservatorship
'His' lawyer was actually a friend of the family's who was part of the cabal scamming him. I've already shown you the relationship.
'It smells' that his lawyer is giving away his rights, and he's not seeing the money, but the lawyer's friends are. Are you too dense to start developing this picture?
Never heard of an athlete being ripped off by people who were supposed to be acting in their interests?
Are you so dense that you believe everything you read in the media, and on the internet? If you do, then you're a very gullible person. You've already tried and convicted the Touhy's. Aren't you a great person. You could at least wait to get all the facts before you hang them.
You still can’t come up with a good reason for these people to foist their longtime family friend on this kid as ‘his’ lawyer to then sign away his rights, can you?
Instead of sitting around trying (and failing, as your assumptions so far have been demonstrated meritless (e.g. NFL prospects) you yourself haven’t posited a good reason for them to have done this) to invent excuses, look at the facts in evidence and answer the question you already asked yourself: why would they do this?
To rip him off.
I didn't realize I was under orders to satisfy your obnoxious behavior. I'll leave all the the fantasizing to you, and will instead, wait for the actual facts to be heard in a court of law.
Lacking common sense, there is clearly a great many things you don't realize, the first of which is no one has ordered you to do anything.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a man think.
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