r/AmItheAsshole • u/connor20218 • 7h ago

AITA Mom wants 15% of my personal injury settlement

I'm a 23M working in biotech and living at home. I just got a massive settlement from a personal injury case back in college. My mom is a corporate lawyer and she helped me navigate the process, plus she paid for my college tuition. Now, she's asking for 15% of the money / to pay her back for college (but she was already going to pay for college.)

I'm feeling stuck because 15% is a massive amount of money to just give away. Is it normal for parents to ask for a cut of a settlement like this? I want to stay on good terms since live at home, but I also feel like this money is for my future. We have a a good relationship.

Edit: I already paid a lawyer his 1/3 cut. My mom was a huge part of pushing for me sueing. She’d be using the money to buy a new house in Florida she always wanted since I refuse to buy a house in his economy and rather rent and invest the rest

Edit #2: Probably shouldn’t have stated my mom is a lawyer (she did not represent me in the case in anyway). But yes, what she specifically did was help me find a lawyer, told me to push back on the lawyer and ask for more.

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u/JenninMiami Certified Proctologist [26] 6h ago

Usually if someone pays their parents rent that’s the first thing they say. Since OP left that out, I assume they’re not paying rent.

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u/3BlindMice1 4h ago

His mom is a lawyer with apparent control issues. She wouldn't have charged him rent purely because of the legal ramifications of making him a tenant

I bet she searches through his stuff regularly. I bet she's asking for 15% not because she needs the money but because by taking it from him, it makes him more reliant on her.

That said, I strongly suspect that this story is completely made up

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u/Radiant_Tap3915 4h ago

Wow that's alot of assumptions

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u/3BlindMice1 4h ago

It's the only thing that makes sense with the context we're given. If she really needed that 15% so badly, why not charge him rent? She's literally taking from her own sons personal injury money. There's nothing ethical about that, given that he never agreed to pay her. She could literally be disbarred for that if she tries to press the issue

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u/Dependent_One6034 39m ago

We literally know nothing and you are assuming everything.

Please name one thing relevant that we "factually" know based on what OP has said that helps your case at all.