Thomas D. DeCarlo

Bar Admissions

• State of Michigan
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• United States District Court, Western District of Michigan
• United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• United States Circuit Court of Appeals – Sixth Circuit

Practice Areas

• Bankruptcy and Insolvency
• Business Litigation
• Construction Litigation

Member

• State Bar of Michigan
• Consumer Bankruptcy Association – Eastern District of Michigan
• Federal Bar Association – Western District of Michigan
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Academy – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees

Seminars

• Steven W. Rhodes Consumer Bankruptcy conference – Case law Update
• Federal Bar Association – Western District of Michigan – Case Law Update
• Credit Education coalition, Columbus Ohio – Case Law Update
• American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Conference
• National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges – 2012

Published Decisions

• In re Parmenter, 527 F.3d 606 (6th Cir. 2008)
• In re Kahn, 2014 WL 3529445 (E.D. Mi. 2014)
• Penfound v. Ruskin, 609 BR 602 (E.D. Mi. 2019)
• In re Blackshear, 531 BR 711 (E.D. Mi. 2015)
• Rebel Enterprises, Inc. v. Palm Beach County Sheriff, 299 F.3d 1261 (11th Cir. 2002)
• In re Callahan, 251 BR 170 (Bankr. S.D. Fl. 2000)

Education

• University of Michigan – B.G.S. 1981
• Stetson University College of Law – J.D. 1984, Magna Cum Laude, Editor-in-Chief, Stetson Law Review Vol. 13

Published Articles

• It’s Time to Fix the Forms: Unemployment Compensation is Not a Benefit Under the Social Security Act – ABI Journal, November, 2013
• Absolute Right to Dismiss? Sixth Circuit Says “Yes” – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, August 8, 2021
• Annulment of the Automatic Stay: A Concept Whose Time Has Come – And Gone – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, June 21, 2020
• Forced Vesting by Any Other Name – just Might Work – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, September 29, 2019
• Yet Another Arrow in the Quiver of the “Less Than Honest Debtor”? – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, January 6, 2019
• Discharged or Not: Post-Petition Interest on Pre-Petition Priority Taxes – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, August 5, 2018
• Notice: Pitfalls and Perils of Rule 7004(h) – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, August 26, 2018
• Social Security and Chapter 13 – Can’t We All Just Get Along? – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, June 10, 2018
• “Cure and maintain” in Chapter 20? Not in Canton, You Don’t! – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, January 21, 2018
• Sorry Folks, There is no “Riding Through” This Town – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, December 31, 2017
• Undisclosed Assets, Voluntary Dismissal, and Section 349 – Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, September 24, 2017
• “I Surrender” (or Maybe not) – the Impact of “Surrender” in Post-Discharge Foreclosure Proceedings – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, November 6, 2016
• Hatfield v. Husky – Why Debtors (and Their Counsel) Should be Very Afraid of Husky – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, September 18, 2016
• Critical Case Comment – In re Bateson – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, August 14, 2016
• Another Arrow in the Quiver of the “Less Than Honest Debtor”? – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, July 31, 2016
• Voluntary Retirement Contributions and Calculation of Disposable Income – National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s Academy, January 17, 2016

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