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.