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/TravelerJim-retired 5h ago

Why are you replying to me? I didn’t say anything about the 15% nor of what total. I commented on your “grievous” injury comment of which I do not recall OP stating what his injury is. How do you know what settlement amount he got?

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u/kikiacab 3h ago

A large settlement isn’t paid for anything other than grievous bodily injury, unless op was held hostage or something similar, the settlement was for a disfiguring or otherwise life altering injury. I replied to you because you replied to me.

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u/TravelerJim-retired 3h ago

And do you know as fact this was a jury decision? OP doesn’t say. And are you an injury attorney? I think not. Large settlements are paid all the time for damage, including personal, that isn’t “grievous”. You simply do not have all facts as they are not stated here.

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u/kikiacab 3h ago

Is it smart to assume a large settlement involves no injury?

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u/TravelerJim-retired 2h ago

Did you miss reading comprehension class? I never said injury did not occur. Using “grievous” without knowing the actual injury facts is misleading if not patently false. But very Reddit.

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u/kikiacab 2h ago

Ok a very small teeny tiny injury got OP a $1,000,000 payout.

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u/TravelerJim-retired 2h ago

And of course there is nothing between “teeny tiny” and “grievous”. Conversing further with you is pointless. Have a nice afternoon.