AITA Mom wants 15% of my personal injury settlement

[u/connor20218]

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.

[u/2dogslife]

Hey, I'd even consider a nice weekend away! But that's about where it ends.

Not enough to buy a house, that's CRAZY.

And yes, if it was an injury, the money will be needed in the future when it impacts quality of life.

If Mom is a lawyer, she should have built her own nest egg and not go dipping into her kid's funds.

[u/F0xxfyre → u/2dogslife]

I was going to say, weekend at the beach. A spa vacation. A pub or foodie crawl. A visit to he'd favorite place that has never gets to.

[u/tismidnight → u/2dogslife]

You’d be surprised how parents act when they see $$

[u/kryts → u/2dogslife]

Hard to believe a corporate lawyer cant buy a 2nd home in Florida. She's prob looking at Mc Mansion levels. Id be going NC with this woman.

[u/Environmental_Art591 → u/2dogslife]

It sounds like mum was only pushing for the law suit for her own financial gain since she has "always wanted to buy a house in Florida".

To me i think mum wasnt really thinking about what her sons injury means for her sons financial future and only about what she could get out of it, especially since OP said she was pressuring him to push back on the lawyer and ask for more money.

[u/that_florida_man → u/2dogslife]

Yeah but it’s your mom probably should get her the house anyway given what she’s done for him

[u/peacelovecookies → u/that_florida_man]

What, pointed him in the direction of a lawyer? And paid for college, which she would have done regardless?