@Opus 17
The settlement was reached in mediation. The school broke several laws including FAPE, LRE, and FERPA laws with my then 12-year-old son who is disabled. We had to hire multiple lawyers to deal with the ensuing legal battles. To pay for these legal fees we had to drain our son’s savings account (as well as ours). In the settlement they agreed to pay our son back the money we had to use from his savings account to pay for his lawyer’s fees.
Unfortunately, they do not specify any of this in the 1099-NEC.
