County Judge · Palm Beach County Court
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834 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Debra Moses Stephens across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Divisions FS
Also: RH · NC/H (Family, Civil, Criminal)
Courtroom 1407
On this assignment since June 8, 2026
Divisions FS · RH · NC/H (Family, Civil, Criminal)
North County Courthouse, 3188 PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens — 1407 / courtroom 1
TITLE CORRECTED to county judge (AO 11.101-06/2026 lists her under County Court Civil RH and County Court Criminal H/NC). North County shared instruction body only partially published — treat absences as unverified. Zoom: RH 873 6210 5000; FS/H 911 1095 1090.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 15th's own judges grid shows the court's default-judge placeholder for this judge — the court publishes no portrait. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fourth District Court of Appeal (West Palm Beach).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Alan O. Forst, Burton C. Conner, Caroline Shepherd, Cory J. Ciklin, Johnathan D. Lott, Jonathan D. Gerber, Mark W. Klingensmith, Melanie G. May, Robert M. Gross, Shannon K. Shaw, Spencer D. Levine
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
No portrait published: the court serves its literal "Photo not Available" placeholder asset (default-judge_0.png) for this judge's card on /judges (verified live 2026-08-03). Re-check on the next sweep.
8 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 834 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 14 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (June 28, 2018–August 6, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
Ljubo Skrbic v. LA Renaissance Board of Directors
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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Judge Stephens deems motions abandoned when they sit unset for five days — the fastest abandonment clock in the courthouse; hearings are set by CALLING the JA and come within 30 days.
3 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division RH on continuances & cancellations.
RHYTHM & HUES, LLC VS NATURE'S LAWN CARE, INC. d/b/a
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Tormax USA, LLC vs Kennedy Contractors, Inc.
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Christopher Gallardo v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Paul Vota v. Andrea Burgos and Ron Nelson
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Michael Duni and Judy Duni v. The Ocean at the Bluffs South Condominium Association, Inc.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Shakema Glover v. Westlake Services, LLC, dba Westlake Financial Services
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Leo Koel v. Lauren Marie Self and LMBL Management, LLC, etc.,
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Alexander Ankudinov v. Riverwalk Homeowners Association, Inc.
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIAM TERRY BURGESS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEREMY BETHEA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
ROBERT K. DUNN, DIANA L. DAVIS, and VS WENDY D. FARIA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Stephanie Sackett v. David Tubero and Paula Tubero
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
LEANNA HORNE vs JASON COLBERG
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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