Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number BP 145805 concerning the Appointment of the Conservatorship over the Person and Temporary Appointment of the Conservatorship over the Person of Casey Kasem had been filed on October 7, 2013. Casey Kasem had been the founder of “America’s Top 40”.
Julie Kasem filed the Conservatorship Petition and the Petition for a Temporary Conservatorship, accusing Mr. Kasem’s wife of blocking her and her siblings from seeing their father and preventing them from making decisions about his medical care. Additionally, the Conservatorship Petition alleges that Mr. Kasem has the following problems:
— major impairment to short term, long term and immediate recall memory
— major impairment to verbally communicate
— major impairment to perform simple calculations, plan simple tasks and reason logically.
— severe disorganized thinking
— moderate hallucinations
It appears that Mr. Kasem has been checked out by police detectives and social services workers as is typical in conservatorship matters.
Counsel for Kasem’s wife of 33 years urged Judge Roy Paul of Department 29, to reject Julie Kasem’s petition outright saying the efforts by her and her siblings were hurting his client and the radio host. He said a 2007 document that appointed Julie Kasem as an overseer of her father’s medical care had been superseded by 2011 estate planning documents.
Probate Volunteer Panel, Attorney Samuel Ingham, told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy Paul that he has visited Mr. Kasem and that he did not see the immediate need for a conservatorship but that he still lacked information about the former radio host’s doctors and treatments. Mr. Kasem is suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease, according to court filings by his adult daughter, Julie Kasem.
Judge Roy Paul has postponed any decision in the case until November 19, 2013, in Department 29 of the Los Angeles Superior Court so an investigation can be carried out into Kasem’s health and well being.
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