Minor-Child No-Contact Modifications: Thursdays 11 AM Only, DCF… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Minor-Child No-Contact Modifications: Thursdays 11 AM Only, DCF Recommendation Required — Division DV/TD

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Domestic Violence Division DV/TD Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Burke hears motions to modify no-contact with minor children ONLY on Thursdays at 11:00 AM — and a DCF recommendation is required before the modification is heard.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Domestic Violence Division DV/TD (Judge Lauren Burke)

Source of truth

"Hearings regarding motions to modify no contact with the minor child/children are ONLY heard on Thursdays at 11:00 AM" / "A DCF recommendation is required" / "All motions must be filed with the Clerk of Court PRIOR to seeking hearing time"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-dv-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 2/3 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 372a9043e0d294065e337c7adf939f4dceecd5bcf4d6de18a0d9b4d12ae2d528; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/dv/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Domestic Violence Injunction

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division DV/TD Instructions (Judge Burke). Review before republishing dependent rules.