Hearings ≤30 Minutes Default to Zoom; Telephonic Allowed Absent… — Duval County, FL · BenchPath

Hearings ≤30 Minutes Default to Zoom; Telephonic Allowed Absent Objection — Division CV-A

Medium — verify before relying· verified August 4, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsDiv. CV-A Procedures (rev. 2/27/2026)

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Most hearings set for 30 minutes or less are conducted by Zoom in CV-A; the setting order/notice prevails. Telephonic appearance is allowed if opposing counsel doesn't object — request it when scheduling.

Applies to

Florida > Fourth Judicial Circuit > Duval County > Division CV-A (Judge Waddell A. Wallace III)

Source of truth

"Most hearings set for 30 minutes or less will be conducted by Zoom Conference. Some matters 30 minutes or less may be in person and the Order Setting or Notice of Hearing the matter prevails." ... "Telephonic appearances are allowed provided there is no objection from opposing counsel."

Official source: Div. CV-A Procedures (Judge Wallace) — PDF
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: February 27, 2026
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Verbatim excerpts from the judge's published procedures; 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. [VERIFY WAVE 2026-08-04: order renders only inside the Duval Clerk's application and returned the loading placeholder on the final capture pass, or is a scanned image with no text layer (OCR class); custody holds the document bytes. The July-verified excerpt stands; confidence held at medium pending patient re-capture or OCR. Named reason, not a silent gap.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, division-follow): matched the division code on the court's directory to the sitting judge's own procedure document, sha256 2773bbb5e3f40441541307bdd15193b1b2b3215f473bf3a252691e1b02f32603; source_url repaired to the document quoted.] Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the Division CV-A judge's published procedure documents (https://www.jud4.org/getContentAsset/d0060d05-5ab2-4d06-a32f-6673c9b5597e/135b97c9-84fa-4e82-b956-0fbccec4aa1f/PROCEDURES-FOR-DIVISION-CV-A-CIVIL.pdf?language=en), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the document, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Circuit Civil

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