Cameron Custard

Associate

Cameron focuses her practice on tax-exempt organizations, helping exempt organizations achieve their mission goals in compliance with their tax-exempt status. She also advises clients on a range of estate planning matters.

Cameron Custard

Cameron maintains a broad-based practice related to tax-exempt organizations.  She partners with tax-exempt organizations on a range of issues, including formation, exemption, compliance issues, grant-making, and corporate governance. She works with public charities, private foundations, social welfare organizations, and other exempt organizations to enhance their tax compliance and improve their governance.

She also works on a range of trust and estate related matters, including estate planning, charitable planning, and business succession planning. She strives to holistically capture the family dynamic and develop plans that reflect the family’s values and achieve the family’s financial, charitable, legacy and personal goals.

Publications, Presentations & Recognitions

  • “Tax Aspects of Fiduciary Litigation - Litigating Disputed Estates, Trusts, Guardianships, and Charitable Bequests,” (co-author) Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2023)
  • “Chapter 8 - Litigating Disputed Estates, Trusts, Guardianships, and Charitable Bequests,” (co-author) Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2020)
  • “Installment Land Contracts & Low-Income Homebuyers in Chicago: A Call for Legislative Reform,” 67 DePaul L. Rev. (2018)

Professional Activities

Cameron was a Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.

Boards, Memberships & Certifications

  • American Bar Association
  • Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
  • American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, The Next Generation Society

Perspectives