Tristan Thompson is taking authorized steps to maintain his youthful brother.
Earlier this month, the NBA participant filed to turn out to be the only real authorized guardian and conservator for his 17-year-old brother, Amari.
Thompson has been the first caregiver for his brother — who’s is bodily and mentally disabled, and is confined to a wheelchair on account of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a extreme type of epilepsy — since their mom, Andrea Brooks, died final January.
Based on Thompson, he has been unable to find his father, Trevor Thompson, who was ordered to pay baby help when his mom assumed sole authorized guardianship of Amari in 2014.
“Since then, Trevor Douglas Thompson has effectively abandoned the proposed ward; he failed to pay any child support despite the court order and has not been in contact with the proposed ward or Andrea Marie Brooks since July 2014,” the court docket paperwork state. “He has done nothing to support or raise the proposed ward since then and has relinquished all rights to have any say in the proposed ward’s care.”
“I have not had any contact with him since his separation from our late mother in 2014, and contact was minimal prior to that date,” Thompson wrote of his father within the docs. “My only contact with Trevor Thompson in the past nine years was a brief interaction when he appeared at my mother’s funeral. I have no knowledge of his current or recent whereabouts.”
Thompson stated he even went as far as to rent authorized consultants to try to monitor down his father, “but they were unable to obtain any information about Trevor’s current location or other relevant details.”
Because of this, Thompson acknowledged within the docs, he’s in search of to turn out to be his brother’s authorized guardian to be able to handle his funds and healthcare — made specifically sophisticated by the truth that Amari is a Canadian citizen, however has been dwelling and receiving medical care in California. The brothers moved in with Thompson’s ex, Khloe Kardashian, following their mom’s demise.
“If Amari is required to return to Canada there are no relatives there that have the ability or means to support Amari, and he cannot be provided the level of care and support he is receiving in the United States while in my custody,” Thompson’s petition states. “[I want] to ensure that Amari continues to have a happy and fulfilling life and to provide him with the best care possible.”
Kardashian has made a degree to incorporate Amari in household pictures and celebrations, and her mother, Kris Jenner, teared up whereas speaking concerning the teenager’s well being struggles in an episode of their Hulu actuality present, The Kardashians, final fall.
“Amari is teaching us a lot of life lessons,” Jenner stated, brushing away tears.
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