My Parents Chose a Birthday Dinner Over My Family’s Funeral—Then They Asked for Thirty Percent of the $18.7 Million Settlement

Those memories did not oblige me to provide unlimited money or unlimited access now.

I closed the box.

For the first time in months, the room contained fewer faces asking me to explain myself.

PART 7 — Thirty Percent

The final settlement figure was eighteen point seven million dollars.

David wrote it at the top of a page and placed the page between us.

We did not sign everything that afternoon.

We reviewed the claims being resolved, the rights involved, the proposed allocation, and the approvals required.