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in 1994, Mr. Caple worked part time both as a school bus driver
and as a manager at Best Buy, an electronics retailer. Most
recently, Mr. Caple has worked as a day trader of stocks.2
Petitioner Gail Caple (Mrs. Caple) is employed by Affinity Health
Systems as an insurance specialist.
Before Mr. Caple’s separation from Ocean Angle Steel, he
underwent job-related medical testing that uncovered a condition
known as primary sclerosing cholangitis, a terminal disease, the
only known cure for which is a liver transplant. At or near the
time of Mr. Caple’s diagnosis, his father (who was also suffering
from an unspecified terminal illness) gave petitioners the funds
necessary for Mr. Caple to pay for a liver transplant, provided
he were to receive a donor organ. Although petitioners attempted
to “shelter”3 this gift, they later used the funds for
unspecified expenses.
Petitioners have one child, Ashley Caple (Ashley), who is a
student at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. In addition
to paying Ashley’s college expenses totaling $14,000 per year
(tuition, room, and board), petitioners maintain health insurance
coverage for Ashley. Petitioners incurred all medical costs for
2 In 2003, petitioners reported sales in excess of $2
million from Mr. Caple’s day trading activity.
3 This description is petitioners’, not the Court’s.
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