Ex-NFL lineman Michael Oher learned his adoptive parents were actually his conservators.
permits conservatorship for people who are over 18 or impoverished, among other eligibility requirements.
Oher’s filing alleges him signing the conservatorship agreement—which he said he was tricked into, believing it was similar to adoption—was how the Tuohy co-conservators were able to broker the deal forwith Twentieth Century Fox, which got the couple and their two biological children $225,000 payments and 2.5% in residuals, though Oher says he has not profited at all from the blockbuster hit due to unknowingly signing over the rights to his life story to Fox in 2007.
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