Casey Kasem's daughter gets expanded power over dad's health care

 Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri Kasem has been granted expanded authority regarding her ailing father's care, and his wife, Jean Kasem, has been told to cooperate with the effort.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered Jean Kasem to allow a court-appointed doctor to see her husband and also told her to give Kerri Kasem access to her father, the Associated Press reported. Jean Kasem's lawyers were told to find out and, unless ethically bound, share the patriarch's current address with the rest of the family.

While two attorneys from different firms showed up on Jean Kasem's behalf Tuesday, Judge Daniel S. Murphy said, "I'm not sure she's even complying with my order" from last week. Part of that order sought an assessment of Casey Kasem's health.

The judge also gave Kerri Kasem permission to hire unarmed private investigators to look into the situation, if necessary, and to head north to see her dad. Also, his passport was to be surrendered.
Casey Kasem, whose whereabouts were unclear early last week, was found in Washington state late Tuesday, but his three oldest children, Kerri, Mike and Judie, were not notified until after they'd already filed a missing-persons report in Santa Monica on Wednesday. Kerri Kasem said at the time that she'd most recently seen her 82-year-old father at a nursing home in that city.

"This poor man was moved in the middle of the night," Kerri Kasem told People. "This is no vacation. This is a man who has a feeding tube, hooked up to an IV and has dementia. This is not a man who needs to be unfamiliar surroundings."

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