Casey Kasem’s Daughter Gains More Control [Video]

In case you missed it, the wife of Casey Kasem was served with a California court order on Friday that temporarily suspends her powers to determine her husband's medical care amid concerns about his health and welfare.  

According to Fox 411,  Kitsap County sheriff's deputies said they delivered also expands daughter Kerri Kasem's authority to determine whether her father, who's now in Washington state, is receiving adequate medical care.

Wife Jean Kasem told KING-TV in an interview aired Friday evening that her husband is getting the best possible care and she is "not going to allow anybody to shred (her) family on unfounded facts and malicious accusations."  "My husband is very happy and comfortable," she said. "Our family and has told me time and time again that he wishes to remain under my care." And he can't speak, Jean...how do they know?

 

Casey's daughter, Kerri asked a better question in a statement released Friday night in response to the interview. "Why is she trying to block a doctor from seeing my father?" Kerri asked , telling her stepmother, "If you truly love my father, you will do the right thing and allow him to get proper medical treatment."

Kerri's spokesman Danny Deraney said she has a special Washington state court order that allows her to see her father, but there was no timetable for when that will happen.