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Judge Bell holds all trials and special-set hearings over 15 minutes in person; Zoom appearances must be on camera — no phone.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AF (Judge Carolyn Bell)
"all Division AF Trials and Special Set Hearings more than 15 minutes long are conducted with counsel and self-represented parties appearing in person" / "Must appear via video (phone appearances or appearances without camera are not permitted)"
Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-af-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 6d5b998177dd6dde7e1b921f77c4d927bfe09640db78e0ebd7a1e78da9637187); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 d52cca5a1442fb3f6bb08df6069341c2b5173ed392b696f48940af880d59ca47; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach Division FC on remote appearance policy.
Judge Hooi does not usually allow hybrid hearings (one side in person, one virtual); if both sides prefer, everyone may appear in person instead; emergencies route through the clerk to a judge-entered handling order.
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