Palm Beach County Court Rules, Divisions & Judges — Fifteenth Judicial Circuit

Administrative OrdersPalm Beach County

Palm Beach: division pages still publishing the VACATED AI order — holdover map re-verified 2026-07-24

Five division pages still publish the vacated AO 2.109 as if it were live; Division FI still prints the operative "must disclose" sentence. Division AG was remediated between July 22 and July 24, 2026 — the first and so far only division to do so.

High confidence· verified August 4, 2026BenchPath circuit-wide division-page re-scan, 2026-07-24 (six pages re-fetched; script docs/handoff/fifteenth-upgrade/holdover15.cjs), against AO 2.109-5/26 and AOSC26-12

Judge PreferencesPalm Beach County · Family Division FI · Judge Rosemarie Scher

Generative AI Disclosure — Division FI [VACATED: the order behind this page was vacated in full on June 15, 2026]

[VACATED — NOT A LIVE REQUIREMENT.] Division FI's instructions page still republishes Palm Beach AO 2.109-4/26's mandatory AI-disclosure sentence, but Chief Judge Kelley VACATED that order in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 at 12:01 a.m. (AO 2.109-5/26). No AI disclosure, certification, or tool-identification is required in Division FI or anywhere in the Fifteenth Circuit. Only statewide Rule 2.515(d)(2) applies.

High confidence· verified July 22, 2026Division FI instructions page (live 2026-07-22) vs. AO 2.109-5/26 vacatur (signed May 29, 2026)

E-FilingStatewide

Statewide AI-Era Certification: Every Signer Certifies Cited Authorities Exist — Rule 2.515(d)(2)

Effective June 15, 2026, every signer of a Florida court filing — attorney or self-represented — represents that "the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited," with express sanctions (reprimand, contempt, striking, dismissal, costs, fees) for violations. Companion order AOSC26-12 preempts ALL circuit- and judge-level AI disclosure/certification requirements.

High confidence· verified July 5, 2026In re: Amends. to Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515, No. SC2026-0673 (Fla. May 28, 2026); Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2); AOSC26-12

Administrative OrdersPalm Beach County

Palm Beach: recusal and disqualification reassignment cascade (AO 11.101-06/2026)

When a judge is disqualified or recuses, the Clerk first randomly reassigns within the same division at the same courthouse. Where a division has only one judge, or all its judges are conflicted, the order routes the case along a fixed six-branch cascade — foreclosure to Circuit Civil, IA and IZ paired, and branch-courthouse matters to the Main Courthouse.

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 22, 2026AO 11.101-06/2026 p.4 (15th Cir., eff. June 8, 2026)

Local RulesStatewide

S.D. Fla. Magistrate Judge Rule 4 — Review And Appeal

S.D. Fla. Magistrate Judge Rule 4 — Review And Appeal — the district court's own Local Rule, verbatim from the 2025 Local Rules book (effective December 1, 2025), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every S.D. Fla. courtroom alongside any judge-specific preferences.