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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Virtual-Solution6150 on 2023-09-05 18:41:11.

Edit: company not industry (paragraph 2)

Edit 2: I have a lawyer for my business but not a personal lawyer, I’m going to get one so they can sort this out. I have arranged to speak to my siblings tonight to speak about suing him for backdated child support.

I (29F) have two older sisters; our mother raised us as a single parent and grew up in poverty as she didn’t work due to health conditions and mental health problems. I still don’t know much about what happened as my late mother left him before I even turned one but I do know there was domestic abuse involved, and he hit my mother daily, but that’s it.

When I was 23, I decided to set up my own company, and at first, like any new business, there were a lot of struggles, but now the industry is thriving, it makes a lot of money, and I have around 30 employees, and I get a decent salary. Somehow my deadbeat father found out I’m doing well and sent me a Facebook message request practically requesting I send him £900.00 monthly so he can live comfortably as he’s retired. I blocked him and I guess he wasn’t happy as he got family members to message me and I started to block them as they were messaging me constantly about it. I did find out that my father gets around £900.00 a month in benefits which isn’t enough to make ends meet.

I have an app called cash app which I barely use, but someone sent my dad my tag or whatever it’s called as he’s frequently requesting cash, which I ignore and he has also threatened to take me to court to get this monthly payment of me. I spoke to some family members about it from my late mother’s side, and they think I’m being an asshole because I could keep the peace by sending him the £900.00 a month, and it’s creating conflict in his family.

AITA for not sending him the £900.00 a month even though I can afford this?