Palm Beach Division L (Judge April Bristow) — Remote appearance… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Palm Beach Division L (Judge April Bristow) — Remote appearance policy

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Division L divisional pages (instructions) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

2 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division L on remote appearance policy.

Applies to

Palm Beach County, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit — Division L only. Divisional instructions change without notice; the division page is the controlling text. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Parties may appear over ZOOM for case dispositions and status checks regardless of the day scheduled. HOWEVER, any defense counsel appearing via Zoom must confer with the State ahead of time regarding the status of case . All other hearings require advance permission of the Court for requested remote appearance. Any request for a ZOOM hearing must be made by written motion filed with the Clerk and served on all opposing parties no later than three (3) days before the scheduled hearing. Please email CAD-DivisionL@pbcgov.org to request a hearing or with any questions or concerns.

Official source: 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 3, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-arbitration-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Complete-coverage record. Page sha256: b64695c9ebb40406c7e8a99b4b38e354a2ffcb8e88a5cf26a1fa20b3cae95314. Clauses under 60 characters (navigation labels and section headings) were excluded; 628 such fragments were dropped circuit-wide. A separate curated highlight rule may cover one of these clauses with a sharper title — de-duplication is an open curation task, not a data gap. Complete verbatim requirement set published by this division on the topic of remote appearance policy, captured 2026-07-24. Each clause is reproduced exactly as the division publishes it; only HTML whitespace was normalised. [moved from the text 2026-09-17]

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