Michael Oher, whose life was portrayed in the movie The Blind Side, filed a petition in Tennessee on Monday to end a conservatorship that Oher says he was told were adoption papers. The papers, which he said were filed shortly after he turned 18, were not adoption papers, but were conservatorship agreements. Oher is now asking the court to end the conservatorship and account for the money the Tuohy family has made from his name.
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