MEMPHIS, Tennessee — A Tennessee judge announced on Friday that she is terminating a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and a Memphis couple who fostered him during high school.
Kathleen Gomes, the Shelby County Probate Court judge, has announced that she is terminating the 2004 agreement allowing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to control Oher’s finances. Oher inked the contract at 18 while living with the couple and being recruited by colleges as a high school football star.
Judge Says She Is Ending Conservatorship Between Former NFL Player Michael Oher And Memphis Couple
Gomes stated that she would not be dropping the case. He has requested that the Tuohys provide a financial accounting of any money that may have come to them as a result of the agreement, alleging that they used his name, image, and visage to enrich themselves and misled him into believing that the agreement would result in the Tuohys adopting him.
Gomes expressed dismay that such an agreement had ever been reached. She stated that in her 43-year tenure, she had never witnessed a conservatorship agreement with a non-disabled individual.
“I cannot believe it got done,” she exclaimed.
Oher and Tuohys listened but did not speak during a video conference call.
SOURCE – (AP)
