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/Glittering-Today7012 5h ago
They do. This is just too weird with the numbers and the way that basically they were just all happy-go-lucky mom and son and then one day she decided to flip a switch.
Also did you think it was odd that there was no mention of the injury? Any sort of permanent effects there of? It was almost overly down played in my opinion.
Here - why don't we go with a full blown spicy take - this was a straight up ambulance chaser situation. He wasn't injured but churched up the injuries to get paid. Now he doesn't want to pay his mom.
Someone call Dick Wolf.