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5 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach magistrate04 on uniform motion calendar & special sets.
Palm Beach County, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit — magistrate04 only. Divisional instructions change without notice; the division page is the controlling text. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Complete verbatim requirement set published by this division on the topic of uniform motion calendar & special sets, captured 2026-07-24. Each clause is reproduced exactly as the division publishes it; only HTML whitespace was normalised. • All Uniform Motion Calendar hearings shall be scheduled via Zoom or other video conferencing at the request of any party per Rule 2.530, Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. The Zoom information (below) must be included in your Notice of Hearing and a courtesy copy sent to the Magistrate via the Cad-email CAD-SCHRoomD@pbcgov.org . The UMC hearing notice must issue at least five (5) days before hearing. • Effective October 20, 2025, Special Set hearing, Non-Jury Trials, and evidentiary Motion hearings are set with the Court through the Magistrate Assistant . • Before requesting a special set hearing or request for trial (1) the motion(s) must be filed and docketed with the Clerk of Court; (2) If needed, the Order of Referral shall be prepared and the objection period expired; and (3) The parties shall comply with AO 5.209, except for section regarding envelopes, prior to requesting a hearing date and time. In keeping with professional courtesy, any party scheduling a hearing shall make a good faith attempt to resolve the matter, undertake reasonable efforts to contact the opposing party/counsel for availability or scheduling conflicts. • the subject line of the email must include the words: SPECIAL SET, the case number and name of the parties • All Notice of Hearings must include the ADA language pursuant to Administrative Order 2.207 , and Review and Recording language per Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure Rule 12.490(d)(4) and (5). Matters shall be heard before General Magistrate Sheena Benjamin-Wise , or her successor or alternative General Magistrate. If a special set hearing was requested and the matter is set to be heard via Zoom, please request the Zoom information from the Magistrate's Assistant to include in your Notice. Matters set to be heard in person shall take place at the South County Courthouse, 200 West Atlantic Avenue, Hearing Room# D, Delray Beach, Florida 33444. For Notices of Hearings on contempt motions, please include contempt language required by Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure Rule 12.615(b) and Florida Family Law Form 12.961.
All Uniform Motion Calendar hearings shall be scheduled via Zoom or other video conferencing at the request of any party per Rule 2.530, Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. The Zoom information (below) must be included in your Notice of Hearing and a courtesy copy sent to the Magistrate via the Cad-email CAD-SCHRoomD@pbcgov.org . The UMC hearing notice must issue at least five (5) days before hearing.
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Ex parte in CV-E is strictly for uncontested matters resolvable in five minutes or less, held 9:00–10:00 a.m. on posted dates (website and outside Hearing Room 739). In-person, telephonic, Zoom, and hybrid appearances are permitted under Rule 2.530.
Judge Wallace's Uniform Motion Calendar takes only non-evidentiary motions, capped at ten minutes per case (five per side) — and the ten minutes includes the judge's time reviewing your papers. Set at least one week ahead; first-come, first-served in Hearing Room 743.
Telephone appearances in CV-D require counsel to arrange a single conference call joining all participants and to courtesy-copy the Notice of Hearing to the JA; the JA prepares the first trial order, but every amended trial order falls on plaintiff's counsel.