A lawyer for a prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former NFL player Michael Oher says that they want to end a conservatorship that he's challenging in court.
Michael Oher holds up a Ravens jersey while standing alongside Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy after being selected in the NFL draft in 2009. Oher, now 37, has accused the Tuohys of falsely representing themselves as his adoptive parents.
Oher filed a petition Monday in a Tennessee probate court accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago. The couple's attorneys also said that the Tuohys and Oher have been estranged for about a decade. Steve Farese said Oher has become "more and more vocal and more and more threatening" over the past decade or so, and this is "devastating for the family."
The couple didn't simply adopt Oher, Fishman said, because the conservatorship was the fastest way to satisfy the NCAA's concerns that the Tuohys weren't simply steering a talented athlete to Mississippi, their alma mater where Oher later attended. Randy Fishman, left, and Steve Farese Sr., two members of the legal team representing the Tuohy family, listen to a question from the media during a press conference in Memphis on Wednesday.
The Tuohys said that they set up the conservatorship to help Oher with health insurance, a driver's license and being admitted to college. In Tennessee, a conservatorship removes power from a person to make decisions for themselves, and it is often used in the case of a medical condition or disability.
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