Trial Exhibits & Witnesses Exchanged 45 Days Out; Docket… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Trial Exhibits & Witnesses Exchanged 45 Days Out; Docket Entries on Everything — Division FA

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Family Division FA Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Leitner requires trial exhibit and witness lists exchanged within 45 days before trial, and every notice, motion, referral, and Magistrate objection must state its docket entry number.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Family Division FA (Judge Dane Leitner)

Source of truth

"All parties shall exchange lists of all trial exhibits, names and addresses of all trial witnesses" (within 45 days prior) / "All notices of hearing(s), motions, referrals, and objections to the Magistrate must clearly state the docket entry" / "ALL Attorneys/LITIGANTS are expected to dress professionally, even if the hearing is conducted by Zoom"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fa-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 2fa08ec428045a6f045760475b656814eca30acbf516fe0e9ed2f0154cf53f44); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 320c85a3dcc79a7e8bc77b6a3092633c26b78faeb36ec26fbf320db2ec20cd0e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/fa/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 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner). Review before republishing dependent rules.