Kerri Kasem’s Fight Against Jean Kasem Continues

Kerri Kasem is likely not going to be sending Jean Kasem a Mother’s Day card anytime soon. Kerri Kasem has been doing battle with her stepmother, Jean Kasem, since before her father passed away. At issue is the younger’s claim that Jean was poisoning her father against her and the rest of his family in order to receive his entire estate. There have also been other claims of mistreatment by Kasey’s former wife.

Kerri Kasem was most recently hoping that the courts would rule on her side and against her stepmother, but her hopes were dashed earlier this week when the Los Angeles County district attorney announced the office would not be filing charges against Jean Kasem. Kerri Kasem announced the following statement about her feelings regarding the decision.

“My family is very sad to learn the Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has decided not to file charges against Jean Kasem. We did everything we could to save my Dad at the end of his life, including getting an emergency court order for conservatorship. But we were too late. My father’s second wife Jean had done everything she could to keep our father from us while not providing the quality care that he – and every other senior in our society – deserves.”

Kerri Kasem also made it clear that she is going to continue the fight. Now Kerri Kasem and the rest of her siblings will be looking for the Kitsap County, Washington, prosecutors to do what they want. This county has jurisdiction because Jean eventually took Casey Kasem there and that is where he died. In the meantime, Kerri Kasem is taking her fight to a national scale. Part of that fight has taken her to Texas in order to testify on a bill that was brought before that legislature’s senate committee.

“I’ve dubbed it the visitation bill, which allows adult children or the loved ones of an ailing person, the rights to say he or she is being isolated and they want visitation rights,” Kerri Kasem said before speaking to a group of students at Henderson Middle School on Wednesday afternoon according to the El Paso Times.

All of this comes because Casey’s children claim they weren’t allowed to see their father for months before he passed. Now that he’s gone, only Jean Kasem and the rest of the clan know the real story, and that’s one of the reasons Kerri Kasem is fighting so hard to get it out there.

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