E-Courtesy Only, Filed and Docketed, 5 Days Out — No Paper — Division AH

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Courtesy Copies15th Jud. Cir., Civil Division AH Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Scott: hearing materials must be filed, docketed, AND delivered through E-courtesy five days before the hearing — and never send paper or notebooks to the courthouse.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AH (Judge Reid P. Scott II)

Source of truth

"motion, any responsive pleadings and any case law for the hearing must be filed and docketed in the court file and provided through E-courtesy on the 15thcircuit.com to the Court five (5) days prior to the hearing" / "DO NOT send paper or notebooks to the courthouse."

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ah-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 9f1101bf78c37252807d3e11ad69a0e6830c2872ff152b78bff431b0aa8aa871); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 03b6ed611e653a1c2c731d588493d2e06e6a8ecbd39adc9e971f6f76fbcf026d; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ah/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

1 verbatim requirement on courtesy copies in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202617th Jud. Cir., Division 82/WC divisional procedures — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Courtesy CopiesDuval County · Circuit Civil Division CV-F · Judge James H. Daniel

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

Judge Daniel is the courthouse outlier who wants NO courtesy copies of pleadings or case law sent to chambers — a sharp contrast with neighboring divisions.

Medium — verify before relying

Source of truth

"motion, any responsive pleadings and any case law for the hearing must be filed and docketed in the court file and provided through E-courtesy on the 15thcircuit.com to the Court five (5) days prior to the hearing" / "DO NOT send paper or notebooks to the courthouse."

Official source

15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott)

Source health

Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

Effective date

—

Last verified

September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.

E-Courtesy Only, Filed and Docketed, 5 Days Out — No Paper — Division AH

Summary

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Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

E-Courtesy Only, Filed and Docketed, 5 Days Out — No Paper — Division AH

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

Broward Division FD (BARBARA R. DUFFY) — Courtesy copies

Broward Division FV/57 (SUSAN L. ALSPECTOR) — Courtesy copies