Legendary radio personality Casey Kasem dies at 82

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45. Sorry I just had to rant I knew why she brought him to WA State ...

Well the legal system is screwed up for the little guys in this state and most states. This is the fix that we all desperately need. They are all veclept about $millionaires with their inheritances (like relatives of Kasem), but they make sure to make legal stuff hard and expensive for the rest of us. I see this in family and criminal law as well ~ the same crap. You either have to be a $millionaire to get fair court hearings or you suffer with a court system that is over burdened, outdated, expensive even then, and beyond repair.

I am no lawyer, but as an advocate for many and with loved ones who I have supported, the law is undeniably skewed toward the rich in every way. IMO one of the most insidious things they have done in inheritance law is to make this state a "community property" state, meaning that spouses have rights to everything ~including inheritances from a former deceased spouse that they should have no business inheriting all of it if there are kids or other relatives who could have a stake. I can see in some cases this might be a need, don't get me wrong but ...I am sorry to say this but if a man's wife dies who inherited and with whom they spent 50 years accumulating other assets together, then the kids or close relatives should have a stake and they do not.

Now this gets complicated to say what I have because often it is the KIDS who are the elder abusers and they also should be held accountable. This is happening all the time in an elder's home where kids move in and then take over their parent's assets and abuse their parents. APS does not do one thing to protect these vulnerable adults. They only care about institutional abuse, like in a rest home, they will go to the ends of the earth and spare no expense to prove things like that someone left a slippery spot in a rest home's hallway but refuse to even make a phone call to a daughter living 2 minutes away when an old man shivering on a bare couch in his underwear after these people received over 20 calls from the neighbors because of their concern. Something is WRONG there, wouldn't ya think?

But there is little protection for an elder who trusted their kid or new wife and signed over their right to make decisions about how to handle the bills when they can no longer do this. If the kid, spouse or ANYBODY is abusive and exploitative, they should be held accountable but they are not. Because there is little in place for APS to go after these pigs, they do nothing, nada, ziltch and so the abuse goes on and on. Often the elder dies in terrible abandonment, horrible pain and misery without so much as a visit from these ...I want to call them heartless pigs ... but I will instead say these "officials" are enmeshed in an institution that helps them ignore this abuse.

Mrs Kasem most likely moved her husband to this state because she knew she would get away with her neglect and abuse. APS won't do anything to her as long as he stays in his home. People like her even commit outright murder and get away with it because well, the person was old and so smothering to death, dying because they did not get the 'right' medications, and other reasons that could involve outright abuse and neglect that (IMO) are often intentionally 'overlooked'. They are not investigated, it is just thought they died "of natural causes" and then the abuser walks away with all the assets. Done all the time here.

What is this about thinking elders have no feelings, do not matter nor should they have protections? Oh they ARE being used a political footballs by politicians who often talk about 'elder abuse' but "forget" to talk about the many, maybe more predominant ways they are being abused by family? I know talk about family abuse is touchy but they have managed to get sympathy for a kid, so why are their great-grandparents still crying alone and frightened after being locked in their basement? Not so much help for them because well, they are old ... GGRR!!

My (more than) 2 cents

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