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35 verbatim requirements from the 15th Circuit's Division FZ instructions page as published today.
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (Palm Beach) — Division FZ only. Division instructions change with judicial rotations; the division's own page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• To schedule a hearing on a Motion, proper notice to all parties is required. • Family Case Managers do not provide legal advice, instead they provide procedural assistance to the self-represented litigants. • Please do not share with Court staff any facts or details about your case or call to schedule, reschedule or cancel a hearing or other Court events. • Any request from the Court must be in the form of filing a proper motion with proper notice to all parties. • You must copy all parties on communications with the Court; no ex-parte communications will be considered. • If you are making a request to the Court, you must file a motion, which shall be provided to all parties and upload the same as an exhibit with a proposed form order by OLS to the division queue. • Please do not submit any documents via "E-Courtesy." Please do not email or upload proposed notices of hearings to be signed by the Judge as you are required to file the same in the case docket. • Please do not provide case law by attachment, but reference all legal authority in a proposed order by OLS. • All proposed orders must be sent to the opposing party so they may agree or object to the same. • Parties must file their completion of Parenting Class certificates. • Please do not book/schedule the hearing unless: your hearing has been agreed to by all parties (please do not unilaterally set or cancel hearings); a notice of the hearing was filed; you have attached the motion, response, and memorandum of law citing case law as an exhibit to the proposed order (please do not attach case law); and Failure to follow judicial instructions may result in the cancellation of the hearing by the Court. • DV cases must be recorded and IF prior approval for Zoom appearance was granted, the hearing will be on a different link. • All parties must give proper notice of the motion with a courtesy copy of the motion and notice to the opposing counsel. • The Court must receive a courtesy copy of the Motion/s by OLS 24 hours prior to the scheduled hearing. • All Motions must be noticed and time must be reserved for each motion. • DO NOT schedule a Default Final Hearing on the UMC calendar. • Default Final Hearings MUST be Special Set, by an Order Setting, with notice to the defaulted party by the Court. • Parties must give five (5) days notice to opposing counsel or pro se litigant, unless short notice is agreed by parties. • Link [ us02web.zoom.us ] Meeting ID : 837 4469 0818 Cancellation of UMC Hearings To cancel a hearing scheduled for UMC, the scheduling attorney's office must file a Notice of Cancellation and submit it to the Court via CAD-DivisionFZ@pbcgov.org . • All special set hearings must be noticed by Court Order . • The Order must indicate by Docket Entry Number the matter to be addressed. • The Parties will submit a proposed Order Setting Special Set Hearing via OLS and schedule their hearing via OLS – they must do BOTH. • The party requesting a hearing must confirm availability and confer before setting the Special Set hearing with the opposing party. • Please do not call the judicial assistant for hearing time. • The Court encourages mutually agreeable resolution wherever possible; however, cancellation must be timely so other Parties can advance their cases. • Proposed Orders to cancel must be TIMELY uploaded through OLS specifically stating the good cause for the cancellation, or accompanied by an Agreed Order resolving the matter. • All procedural prerequisites must be completed before a hearing is sought/set. • No less than five days prior to each hearing, the parties must exchange all proposed exhibits, which they intend to reference during the hearing. • The Moving Party must upload a proposed order reflecting the ruling of the Court, within 24 hours after the hearing. • All notices must clearly state the title of Motion being heard by the Court, must be served on all parties and filed in the case docket. • The motion and proposed order must indicate with specificity the efforts made including the date, time, and manner of each effort. • All discovery motions and proposed orders must indicate the specific effort made to avoid Court intervention including telephone calls and emails. • Attorneys must file a legally sufficient Motion to Withdraw. • Any Motion filed within 90 days of the trial must be set for hearing on the UMC docket. • The Agreed Order must include the new contact information including address, telephone number and email address as well as the current status of the case indicating hearing and trial dates pending as well as the last time the parties attended mediation.
To schedule a hearing on a Motion, proper notice to all parties is required.
Reviewer note: Composed fresh after the July 2026 rotation replaced division instructions; the prior requirement-level rules for this division sit at medium with notes pointing here. Verbatim from the division's own instructions page, fetched live 2026-08-03 (sha256 55dbf223d25187b2…); whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
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