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Zoom Testimony Requires Litigant and Attorney Side by Side — Division FH

Medium — verify before relying· verified August 4, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Family Division FH Divisional Instructions

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

Summary

Judge Keever-Agrama: any litigant testifying at a Zoom UMC or evidentiary hearing must be physically present with their attorney at the same location, in a quiet and stationary place.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Family Division FH (Judge Dina Keever-Agrama)

Source of truth

"all litigants testifying at a UMC hearing or any other evidentiary hearing held via Zoom must be present with their attorney at the same location" / "all attorneys, parties, and witnesses shall be in a quiet and stationary place"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fh-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 774c1733836d562b15039e52b29bc251f3b70c34b7b8acbd1dac4cef1d376181); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 ae899ead711cd5faddcc47cb1746cbce2394ba725e8668e08ac62b97a3f79843; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] 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's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/fh/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 FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FH Instructions (Judge Keever-Agrama). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026