Chatswood Legal Experience

Nearly Fifty
Years Of Experience

Since 1977, Benjafield & Associates has helped people and businesses in Northern Sydney and being based in Chatswood allows us to navigate connected legal challenges. Leading with with practical advice and careful attention to what comes next.

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Practical Legal Advice In Chatswood & Northern Sydney

Clear Advice
When It Matters

From disputes with property to family, business, estates and insolvency, we help you understand what matters. Decipher what is urgent and what to do next.

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Know Your Next Step

Seek Advice Before
You Take Action

Before you sign, reply, pay or agree, get clear legal advice so you understand the risks and make your next move with confidence.

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Why choose us

Since 1977 Benjafield & Associates have been providing legal advice in Chatswood for close to fifty years!

Assisting them deal with disputes, property, company matters, family law, insolvency, wills, estates, powers of attorney and guardianship.

You do not need to arrive speaking lawyer. Bring the letter, contract, demand, will, lease, deadline, email chain, or messy version of what happened.

Every Step in the process

What Happens Next Matters

If you are about to sign, reply, pay, ignore, agree, settle, or send something because you just want the legal problem off your desk, hold on for a minute.

That ordinary next move can matter more than it looks.

We will help work out what is urgent, what is only loud, what should be kept, and what should not be rushed.

Sometimes the smartest first step is not a big legal move. It is knowing what not to do next.

That is where a calmer conversation starts, before things harden. Properly, and before it becomes a bigger problem.

  • Understand what is urgent, what is important, and what can wait.
  • Letters, contracts, deadlines, emails or simply the messy version of what happened.

  • Get advice before a rushed reply, payment, signature or agreement creates a bigger problem.

     
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Get advice before you sign, reply, pay or agree.
Close to

50 Years

0f trusted local legal advice
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution Before you answer a claim, fire back an email, or assume court is the only path, have the dispute looked at properly. We help with civil and commercial litigation, debt recovery and contract enforcement, so your first move is based on the documents, the deadline and the risk, not frustration.
  • Company & Business Law Before a business decision becomes a legal mess, check the paper underneath it. We advise on business sales, structures, contracts, shareholder issues, terms of trade, employee disputes and intellectual property, helping owners see where the risk sits before they sign, argue, buy, sell, borrow, or promise too much in writing.
  • Property Conveyancing Before exchange, settlement, or the “it should be fine” moment, know what the contract actually says. We assist with residential sales, purchases, commercial property, strata matters and off-the-plan issues, so hidden conditions, strange clauses, small traps, timing, easements and obligations are checked before the deal starts quietly bossing you around later.
  • Commercial Leasing Before you sign a lease because the rent looks workable, read the obligations that follow you around for years. We assist landlords and tenants with commercial leasing, renewals, variations and disputes, helping both sides understand repair and maintenance duties, option dates, guarantees, outgoings and the traps that usually appear later, very expensively.
  • Wills & Estates Before money moves, memories argue, or family members start treating a will like a suggestion, get the estate position clear. We assist with wills, probate, estate administration, succession claims, letters of administration and estate disputes, so grief does not get replaced by avoidable legal confusion and blame later.
  • Powers of Attorney & Guardianship Before illness, age, accident or family tension forces someone else to guess, put decision-making authority in order. We assist with wills, powers of attorney, enduring guardianship, financial management and NCAT-related disputes, helping clients choose who can act, when they can act, and what authority they actually have, clearly, in writing.
  • Family Law Before you agree just to keep the peace, understand what that agreement may mean later. We assist with divorce, parenting disputes, property settlements and financial agreements, giving clear advice while emotions are high and everyone is under pressure to make decisions faster than they probably should. We help you compartmentalise the problem so that you can get on with the more important things.
  • Insolvency & Debt Stress Before you ignore a demand, pay whoever is shouting loudest, or keep trading because next month might save it, get advice on the risk. There is a solution to every financial problem. We assist with bankruptcy, debt agreements, liquidation, administration, winding up and director penalty notices, so the next move is made calmly with a view to managing or solving the problem.
step by step breakdown

How it Works

Most people only contact a lawyer because something has become too risky to keep guessing about. That is fine. Actually, that is normal. Start with the thing in front of you: the letter, the contract, the lease, the will, the demand, the court paper, the settlement date, the email chain, the family arrangement, the company document or the creditor pressure.

We look first for urgency. Is there a deadline? Has anyone asked you to sign? Have you already replied? Is money about to move? Is someone threatening proceedings? Is a property transaction about to lock in? Is a family decision being made under pressure? Is there a debt everyone is avoiding?

Then we work out what kind of legal issue it is, what facts matter, what documents should be kept, what should not be said or done too quickly, and what the practical options are that are available. A first conversation does not mean you are starting a war, opening a giant bill, or turning a private problem into a public one. It means someone legally trained is looking at the next step before you take it. That alone can change the temperature of the whole matter.

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  • Step 1: Tell Us What Has Happened Say what happened in plain English. Who contacted you? What changed? What are you being asked to sign, pay, answer, ignore, or agree to? A clear messy version is better than a polished story that leaves out the awkward bit, because the awkward bit is often where the law bites.
  • Step 2: Send The Important Documents Send the paper trail. Letters, contracts, leases, wills, notices, emails, invoices, settlement documents, company records and court papers matter. Screenshots can matter too. Do not tidy the record to make it look nicer. Let us see what exists, what is missing, and what may need preserving right now.
  • Step 3: We Check Urgency First We check timing before anything else gets clever. A deadline, hearing, settlement date, notice period, statutory demand, lease option, or requested response can change the whole pace of advice. If something has a date on it, mention it early. Dates are boring until they are suddenly very expensive.
  • Step 4: We Work Out The Legal Area You do not need to know whether your issue is litigation, family law, company law, conveyancing, insolvency, leasing or estate work. We sort that out. Some matters sit across two or three areas anyway. The first job is to put the problem in the right legal bucket first, then plainly.
  • Step 5: We Explain The Risk Then we look at what can hurt you. The rushed reply. The signature. The missed date. The payment made to the wrong creditor. The family agreement made to calm everyone down. The document nobody read closely. This is where advice earns its keep, before the damage properly settles in later.
  • Step 6: We Discuss Your Options Once the risk is clear, we talk through options. Sometimes that means a letter, sometimes negotiation, sometimes document work, sometimes court, sometimes waiting, but waiting properly. You should understand what each path involves before choosing, including the likely work, pressure points and practical cost questions too.
  • Step 7: We Act On The Agreed Step When a step is agreed, we do the legal work around it. That may mean preparing documents, reviewing a contract, handling conveyancing, writing to the other side, advising on an estate, dealing with a company issue, or representing you in a dispute that needs formal action next. Carefully, with records.
  • Step 8: We Keep The Matter Moving Legal matters feel worse when nobody explains the gap between one step and the next. We keep the matter moving and tell you what is happening, what we are waiting on, what you need to provide, and what decision is coming. Silence should not be part of the service, ever.

Licenses & Memberships

Anyone can make a law firm sound comforting on a webpage. That is not enough.

Before you trust a firm with a dispute, property transaction, estate, family matter, business issue, debt problem, company concern or guardianship question, check the boring proof. Where is the firm based? Who will deal with the matter? What professional details are shown? What systems or legal memberships support the work?

Benjafield & Associates is based at Help Street in Chatswood and has served clients since 1977. We are part of the NSW Law Society and North Metropolitan Law Society, and have an accredited Business Law Specialist in the firm. The firm assists the Chatswood Chamber of Commerce and many of its members. The firm has good working relationships with many accounting and advisory professionals, including liquidators, administrators, trustees, accountants, valuers, brokers, tax advisors and financial advisors.

Look, these signals do not replace a good conversation. They simply let a cautious person do what cautious people should do before calling a lawyer: check that the practice is real, established, contactable and properly set up to handle serious work well.

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Contact

Complete the form to give us the useful version, not the perfect one. By sending through a quick enquiry to our office this keeps our office efficient and we will respond to you with 24-hours or sooner when we can.

Tell us what happened, who is involved, what document you have, and whether there is a deadline. Mention any letter, contract, lease, will, demand, court paper, settlement date, family arrangement, company issue, creditor notice, or payment pressure.

If you already replied, signed, paid, agreed, delayed, or lost a document, say that too. It is better to know early than politely hide the part that matters. We can help work out what area of law applies and what should happen before the next move now.

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Let Benjafield & Associates Solicitors and thier team handle the legal details, while you focus on what matters.
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  • 02 9411 2233 info@benlaw.com.au
  • Address Suite 702, Level 7
    7 Help Street
    Chatswood NSW 2067

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