Judge ends Tuohy family conservatorship of Michael Oher, can’t believe it ever started

Judge ends Tuohy family conservatorship of Michael Oher, can’t believe it ever started

A Tennessee judge is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and The Tuohy family.

Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she was disturbed that such an agreement was ever reached. Gomes explained she had never seen in her 43-year career a conservatorship agreement reached with someone who was not disabled.

“I cannot believe it got done,” Gomes said, per The Associated Press.

The agreement, which was reached in 2004, allowed Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to control Oher’s finances. Oher signed the agreement when he was 18 and living with the couple as he was being recruited by colleges.

Oher has asked that the Tuohys provide a financial accounting of money that may have come to them as part of the agreement, claiming they used his name, image and likeness to enrich themselves and lied to him that the agreement meant the Tuohys were adopting him.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.