Working with family

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I work in an office with my mom, it's just her and I and the man who's name is on the door. She's had health problems and I've been working to cover her hours. It's a pretty laid back place and our boss really doesn't care what we do as he is older and on vacation most of the time. After 35 years he's earned it. Anyway, last week he called me into his office and told me he's cutting my moms vacation from 60 hours to 48 hours per year, and giving me 24 hours vacation time. He also gave me a raise, and I was pretty excited considering I don't even work full time. My mom also gets 10% of his annual bonus, which he said he's going to split between each of us since she hasn't been working much the last year, and I've been writing the majority of new business, etc.. My mom was ticked. I believe she has a right to be upset, but I think she also needs to realize that she doesn't work much anymore and fair is fair. She hasn't said anything directly to me, except that she thinks the way our boss is treating her is BS. I don't think he's being unfair, even when she is there I come in and half her stuff is on my desk with post its on it to get taken care of. I don't want her to feel like I'm trying to edge her out, because that's not my intention at all. I'm trying to stay ot of it and just do my job. How do you handle it when you work with family? Will I be able to stay out of their disagreement? I don't want hard feelings with my mom, but work is work.