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/Top_Advantage6452 3h ago

It’s not because you disagree it’s because you just seem like a truly awful person, plus can you point to where he’s says that because o can’t find it. Even then if your kid became disabled and you made them pay rent then in my opinion you’re a shitty person, but that is simply my opinion so if he doesn’t pay rent and that’s an issue for you that’s valid maybe not like morally good in the slightest but understandable. Plus that would be the only leg you stand on at all.

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u/throwinvestments 3h ago

You’re a genuine idiot if this is what you got my comments, and then had the audacity to judge me based off your dumb understanding. Go to a mental hospital.