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UMC Orders Uploaded the Day Before; 3-Motion Cap; No Temp Custody on UMC — Division FA

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Motion Calendar15th Jud. Cir., Family Division FA Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Leitner: proposed orders upload the DAY BEFORE the UMC hearing, a maximum of three motions per case may be set, and temporary custody matters are NEVER UMC — they are special set.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"PLEASE UPLOAD THE PROPOSED ORDER(S) THE DAY BEFORE THE UMC HEARING" / "The Court will only allow a maximum of 3 (three) motions in one given case to be set" / "DO NOT SET TEMPORARY CUSTODY CASES ON UMC CALENDAR IT IS A SPECIAL SET HEARING"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division FA Instructions (Judge Leitner)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fa-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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, partially-anchored): 2 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the live page, sha256 320c85a3dcc79a7e8bc77b6a3092633c26b78faeb36ec26fbf320db2ec20cd0e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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.