Good-Faith Conferral Before Setting Any Hearing — Division AO — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Good-Faith Conferral Before Setting Any Hearing — Division AO

Medium — verify before relying· verified August 3, 2026Meet & Confer15th Jud. Cir., Civil Division AO Divisional Instructions — Hearings

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

Summary

Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AO (Judge Danielle Sherriff)

Source of truth

"REQUIREMENT for EVERY party setting a hearing to FIRST confer in a good faith effort to resolve the matter" ... "ALL hearing notices shall include a certificate of good faith effort" ... "GOOD FAITH CONFERRALS REQUIRE COUNSEL TO ACTUALLY TALK" ... "Hearings dates must ALWAYS be coordinated with the opposing party."

Official source: 15th Circuit — Division AO Divisional Instructions
Source health: Healthy · checked October 25, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 3, 2026benchpath-campaign-2026-08-03

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-04. 30-day recheck scheduled. 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.

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