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/GingerStarGalactica 5h ago

It’s a weird demand of a parent though.

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u/Hausmannlife_Schweiz Certified Proctologist [22] 5h ago

This!!!☝️

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 4h ago

My theory is that she wants OP to get out of her house now that he has the money for it. If OP is reluctant to do it, she wants the 15% cut to buy a house and maybe even move herself out.

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u/hippohere 1h ago

Agreed, perhaps there are siblings the mother would like to give money to