Judge Catalina Avalos: Discovery — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Catalina Avalos: Discovery

High confidence· verified September 17, 2026Meet & ConferSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/division-38/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements on discovery.

Applies to

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit — Judge Catalina Avalos only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

As of October 31, 2025, discovery motions (except motion to compel financial affidavits or mandatory disclosures) will no longer be heard on UMC and must be specially set pursuant to Division Procedures. Going forward, all discovery hearings shall be held IN-PERSON. Motions shall be limited to 5-minute increments.

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 17, 2026benchpath-by-eye-2026-09-17 | prior: benchpath-reverify-2026-09-14 (text present verbatim on the re-fetched receipt page) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 5af1ac7cc0cdea28905978ab45cb7cb44c046615e8248022876a53a893ca5bce. Corpus categories: DISCOVERY. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. 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 published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] Re-verified by eye 2026-09-17 (fix program 2026-09-17, Phase 3 - audit M1): every sentence found verbatim on the re-fetched official page (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BhBPZVh8hFifL2bJinB6al5QUhQJQeUloMvyA8hGrWM/pub?embedded=true); confidence restored to high, the 2026-09-08 medium reason (text no longer on the live document) no longer holds. sentence updated 2026-09-17 to the division's current wording (the court removed the parenthetical exception for motions to compel financial affidavits or mandatory disclosures).

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Change history

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