Karen M. Miller
Circuit Judge · Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court
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834 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Karen M. Miller across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Family — Division FC
Courtroom 6.1207
On this assignment since June 8, 2026
Main Judicial Complex — 6.1207 / courtroom 6C
UMC Tue–Thu 8:45 a.m. governed by Local Rule 4; temporary relief 30 minutes; exhibits three business days ahead; per-hearing Zoom link.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 15th's own judges grid publishes assignment and phone facts but no biography prose. 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).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Verified against AO 11.101-06/2026 (signed 6/5/2026, eff. 6/8/2026 — fetched + sha256-hashed cb1b9451…, all 4 pages transcribed) and the live division instruction page (fetched + hashed 2026-07-22).
9 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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 233 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 9, 2005–May 20, 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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 233 are counted in the outcome census above.
KATHLEEN SIMON vs JULIAN SIMON
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 4, 2026
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Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALFREDO TENDLER vs KENNETH N. JOHNSON, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
KELLY LUNSFORD vs KARA ENGLE and JAKE PHILLIPS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
BLAKE BRACKETT vs CHERYL ANN OSBORN n/k/a CHERYL ANN KENNEY
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Timothy David Murphy v. Mark M. Murphy, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Susana Calzada v. Augustin Calzada
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Christopher Breeden v. Gretchen Breeden
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert Dana Rizzi v. Alessandra Afonso Da Cunha
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KELLY LUNSFORD vs KARA ENGLE and JAKE PHILLIPS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Arnold Kaston v. Lynn Kaston
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Patricia Schultz v. Joseph Schultz
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
R.P.M., ADOPTIVE PARENT and ELIZABETH R. BERKOWITZ v. PROPOSED ADOPTION OF I.R.M.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Patricia Meyer Almaguer vs Luis Manuel Almaguer
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CARY MARCONI vs TAMER ERTURK
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Carline Clerge Leger v. James Leger
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Carina Pfriman v. Steven Pfriman
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CARLINE CLERGE LEGER VS JAMES LEGER
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
HEATHER LYNN MACDOUGALL vs WILLIAM TODD JENSEN
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIAM P. RAGUSA vs VICTORIA M. RAGUSA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lindsay Wallace v. Andrew Wallace
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
AUDRAJEAN LOCATELLI vs BRIAN S. LOCATELLI
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
AUDRAJEAN LOCATELLI vs BRIAN S. LOCATELLI
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lauren Michelle Brennan v. The Name Change of Lauren Michelle Brennan
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
CHRISTOPHER TAVARIS DEAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
WILLIAM M. HOLT vs LAURA MCKECHNIE HOLT
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Donald Lloyd Edman v. Carlene Edman
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Kimberly Anne Crossen v. Michael Edward Feeley
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
LENA BAILEY vs KENNETH BAILEY, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Ricky Shepherd v. Evadney Shepherd
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Shiloh Friend v. Carlos Serpa, Jr.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Richard F. Watson v. Maria Teresa Watson
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lakeyma Gentry and Jabari Luke v. Diandra Jones
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Amber Reed v. Dustin Reed
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
CONSTANCE RAMOS vs SALVATORE DECARO
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FALLON JOHNSON vs JACOREY JOHNSON
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Kristin Molloy v. Gerald Molloy
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Amber Reed v. Dustin Reed
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
TERENCE DOUGLAS VS BEULAH DOUGLAS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
TODD MATTHEWS vs ROSA MATTHEWS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Terence Douglas v. Beulah Douglas
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GERARDO FELIPE vs SHERI FELIPE N/K/A SHERI LYNN DEPUY
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOY SUE-ANN FRANCIS VS GARTON EARL FRANCIS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Thomas Reed v. Cheryl A. Reed
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
NICHOLAS COKE VS CHANTE THOMAS
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Robert Wunderlich v. Heather Wunderlich
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LISANDRO DEJESUS vs MICHELLE QUINTERO
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KIMBERLY KUEHL VS JEFFREY LEROY KUEHL
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kathy Deasy v. Kevin Deasy
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Nadege Dore v. Guenson Jean Baptiste
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Breanne McClam v. Jason Carrier
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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