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Fioro Legal Fioro Legal is a boutique law firm based in Beecroft and Springwood. We are service oriented and client focused.

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This is the scenario we are asked about more than any other, and it is the one that tends to change the conversation.If ...
29/09/2026

This is the scenario we are asked about more than any other, and it is the one that tends to change the conversation.

If your child holds an inheritance in their own name and their marriage ends, a significant portion — often as much as half — can be drawn into the property settlement. On an estate of two or three million dollars split between two children, that can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars leaving the family.

Roughly 30 to 40 per cent of marriages end in divorce. That is not a remote possibility to be filed under things that happen to other people. It is a realistic planning assumption.

Assets held in a testamentary trust are structured as discretionary, meaning no beneficiary has an automatic entitlement to a fixed share. Because no one — including a separating spouse — can point to a specific percentage as belonging to one person, those assets are considerably harder to draw into a settlement.

You have worked too hard building what you have for a substantial part of it to leave with an in-law.

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Both can carry out the legal transfer involved in buying or selling property. That much is true, and it is why the two a...
24/09/2026

Both can carry out the legal transfer involved in buying or selling property. That much is true, and it is why the two are so often treated as interchangeable.

The difference is scope. In NSW, a conveyancer's work is confined to conveyancing — preparing and reviewing contracts, conducting searches, preparing transfer documents and attending settlement.

A lawyer does all of that, and is also qualified to advise on complex contract terms, stamp duty implications, unusual easements, unapproved building works found during due diligence, leases and licences over the property, ownership structures, and any dispute that arises before or after settlement.

That matters most at the moments you cannot predict. When something unexpected surfaces mid-transaction, a lawyer can act on it immediately. A conveyancer may need to refer you elsewhere, at exactly the point where delay is expensive.

The question is not whether the transaction can be completed. It is what happens if it does not go to plan.

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22/09/2026

We will love ❤️ these giant NYC cookies from one of our delightful friends - will our waistlines love us though 🤔😆 who cares, they are indeed delicious!

A residential property in NSW cannot be marketed until a compliant contract for sale, with the prescribed documents atta...
22/09/2026

A residential property in NSW cannot be marketed until a compliant contract for sale, with the prescribed documents attached, has been prepared. That means the legal work comes before the campaign, not alongside it.

It takes at least a week to prepare a contract of sale, sometimes longer depending on the council area. If you instruct your solicitor after you have engaged the agent, you have already built a delay into your own timeline.

There is a second reason to start early. We use that window to identify anything in the property's history — a past renovation, an easement, a boundary issue — that could otherwise surface once a buyer is found. Dealt with in advance, these are administrative. Raised mid-negotiation, they cost you time, leverage and sometimes the buyer.

Missing documents and ambiguous special conditions make buyers nervous, and nervous buyers pay less.

If you are thinking about selling this year, talk to us before you list.

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When your client is in the business of pets…sometimes the best colleagues have four legs. 🐾❤️
17/09/2026

When your client is in the business of pets…sometimes the best colleagues have four legs. 🐾❤️

This is the objection we hear most often, and it comes from a fair place. Trusts sound like something that belongs to a ...
17/09/2026

This is the objection we hear most often, and it comes from a fair place. Trusts sound like something that belongs to a different bracket of person.

In practice, the threshold is far lower than people assume. Simply owning a home in this part of Sydney does most of the work. Once you add superannuation, shares, term deposits or an investment property, the estate is typically well into the range where the protection actually matters.

The other assumption worth correcting is complexity. A testamentary trust will is still just a will. One document. There is no separate company to establish, no trust deed to maintain alongside it, and nothing to administer while you are alive. The will creates the trust, and the trust only comes into existence after you have passed away.

The question is not whether your estate is grand enough. It is whether what you have built is worth protecting on the way down to the next generation.

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We have opened a Blue Mountains office as of Monday 14 September!In addition to our Beecroft Office, Fioro Legal will be...
15/09/2026

We have opened a Blue Mountains office as of Monday 14 September!

In addition to our Beecroft Office, Fioro Legal will be practising from 210 Macquarie Road, Springwood.

The office will be led by Liana Hoddinott, who has deep experience across property law, conveyancing and leasing, wills and estate planning, probate and contract law.

We will be servicing the Lower Blue Mountains from Lapstone through to Hazelbrook, across the same practice areas as our Beecroft office — conveyancing, property and commercial leasing, wills and estate planning, business law, and disputes.

If you are in the Lower Mountains and have a matter you have been meaning to deal with, we would be glad to hear from you.

210 Macquarie Road, Springwood
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Every claim has a deadline. Once it passes, your right to bring it can be lost entirely — no matter how strong the claim...
15/09/2026

Every claim has a deadline. Once it passes, your right to bring it can be lost entirely — no matter how strong the claim was.

Under the Limitation Act 1969 (NSW), most contract and debt claims must be brought within six years of the date the cause of action arose. Other claims carry different periods, and time can start running from a date you would not expect.

This is one of the more painful conversations we have, because there is nothing to be done about it after the fact. A client arrives with a genuine grievance, good documents and a reasonable prospect of recovery, and the clock has already run out.

If you think you may have a claim, the sensible step is to get advice early — not because litigation is inevitable, but because knowing your position lets you make a commercial decision while all the options are still open.

Most disputes never reach a courtroom. The ones that go badly are usually the ones left too long.

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Not every change to an estate plan requires starting again.A codicil is a legal document that amends an existing will wi...
10/09/2026

Not every change to an estate plan requires starting again.

A codicil is a legal document that amends an existing will without replacing it. Where the change you want is genuinely minor, it can be the simpler route.

A codicil is generally suitable for updating an executor or trustee, changing a beneficiary's name after a marriage or divorce, adding a specific gift such as a car, a piece of jewellery or a painting, or recording funeral and burial wishes.

It is not the right tool for everything. If you are changing how your estate is distributed, changing your residuary beneficiaries, or adding testamentary trusts, you likely need a new will.

One caution: a codicil should be prepared by your solicitor. It must reference the existing will by date, state clearly what is being amended, avoid revoking the will, be correctly signed and witnessed, and be stored with the original. Get any of that wrong and you risk creating uncertainty rather than removing it.

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We have put together a full guide to conveyancing in this part of Sydney — what the process actually involves under NSW ...
08/09/2026

We have put together a full guide to conveyancing in this part of Sydney — what the process actually involves under NSW law, and where a solicitor makes the difference.

It covers reviewing the contract before you sign, how cooling-off rights work and what they cost, the searches and enquiries we conduct, exchange and deposit arrangements including negotiating a reduced or instalment deposit, and what happens on settlement day through PEXA.

There is a section for sellers too, on assembling the contract before listing and dealing with anything in the property's history before a buyer finds it.

We have also included a note on why local knowledge matters here — heritage considerations in older suburbs, strata and community title in newer developments, bushfire and flood overlays, and requirements that vary across the Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai, Parramatta and The Hills council areas.

Read it here: https://fiorolegal.com.au/conveyancing/

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Beecroft, NSW
2119

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
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