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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just read an article where Leigh Anne mentions Michael is very frugal and you can tell from his instagram that he’s not a flashy guy. His clothes don’t even look overly luxurious. I have no reason to believe he is doing this because he ran out of money. I truly believe after getting married he wanted to tie up some legal ends and all of this information (or lack of) came to his attention. He has every to ask for his financial documents from his conservators. The Tuohys neglected to provide them to the court for almost 20 years. [/quote]

I suspect it all stemmed from a core emotional issue--coming to realize he wasn't really a part of the family, which then led to suspicion about finances etc. I feel for him. The Tuohys could have been transparent. Why weren't they? No excuse for them to fail to provide the annual accounting required by law.[/quote]

This is the million dollar question![/quote]

Why didn't Oher ask the court to end the conservatorship years ago? He was in the NFL. He's worked with lawyers before. Why did he wait so long? He knew in 2011. [/quote]

I am one degree of separation from this family. The answer is: they told him that "conservatorship" is how older kids/teens get adopted. They said, over and over in both his presence and in the press, that they had adopted him by setting up the conservatorship. Tuohy parents knew all along that this was absolutely not the case- that conservatorship meant control over, for the purposes of getting certain outcomes that they wanted, like his agreeing to go to Ole Miss. (I am quite sure that they never had a thought about controlling or getting his football money- they are the furthest thing from needing more money.)

Certain things happened in the past 3-5 years that made him more aware that he was not thought of as "a part of the family" in any sense other than superficially and for image. Now he is seeking to get all the details of the past agreements and actions revealed and explained. I say it is about time. But it took this long for him to really see behind the fake stories.[/quote]

You can't gloss right over "certain things happened" obviously that's the crux of the issue. Did Oher view them as much as family or was this some kind of one way street? He wants the perks of being an adopted son, ie included in the will, but was he holding up his end of maintaining a relationship? There's a lot nobody knows.[/quote]
I really doubt he is/was trying to get into their will and even bio kids can be cut out of a will. He’s probably worth more than they are and I would guess he hates how the film portrayed them as a family when he now realizes that by going the conservatorship route rather than adoption they don’t really consider him family and used him. This seems to be more of of a dignity issue that will play out in the courts and they only way a court can try to make it right is with money. [/quote]

No, going to court won’t fix it if it’s about that. Everyone will lose but the attorneys.

What would help is for him to go ahead and write his book and tell the story from his perspective while riding the coattails of the popularity of the movie to make money and then he gets dignity and money.  His story. His sales.[/quote]

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