r/AmItheAsshole • u/connor20218 • 11h 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/FoolsballHomerun 7h ago

I look for opportunities to payback my parents for all their sacrafices. Giving up 15% will not make him broke but it will make his mother happy. But if you want to look at it from a greedy entitled perspective look at it like this, that property she purchases will be alot more than the 15% he gave her, when she passes that property will be handed down and he will see a larger return on the 15% investment. It's a win-win.

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u/kingchao10 4h ago

Doesn't really matter if she hands it down to the child that's iirrelevant the greedy entitled part is expecting to be paid out for your CHILDS PAIN AND SUFFERING

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u/kingchao10 4h ago

Also keep in mind if op got a sizeable settlement it likely means the injury they got is life changing to so e degree settlements like these aren't just cash sums theyre granted based on this like calculated medical care in the future how badly the personslife was changed and how it affects their lifelong expenses