Judge Michael D. Porter: Hearing time & argument limits — St. Lucie County, FL · BenchPath

19th Cir. — Judge Michael D. Porter: Hearing time & argument limits

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Special Set Hearings19th Jud. Cir., published procedures of judge Michael D. Porter — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

34 verbatim requirements published by judge Michael D. Porter on hearing time & argument limits.

Applies to

Nineteenth Judicial Circuit (Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie) — judge Michael D. Porter only. Chambers procedures change without notice; the officer's own page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Communication with the Judicial Office Method of Communication: The preferred method of communication is via email and emails will receive the quickest attention. Correspondence and/or emergency motions should be emailed to SLCJudge4@circuit19.org. You must carbon copy the opposing counsel or party (if pro se) on all email correspondence. Email sent to this office must contain the following in the subject line: Case Short Style Name (Jones v. Jones) Case Number (short case number is okay – example: 21CA234) Purpose of Email (Order, Notice of Cancellation of Hearing, Request for Hearing more than one hour, etc.) If you are requesting an Emergency Hearing, you MUST indicate “Request for EMERGENCY Hearing” The body of the email must contain a brief description of the purpose of the email. If a hearing over one (1) hour is requested, include a good faith estimate of total time needed after c

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Page sha256: 9e33d7a4bbbb90ea417da8adeafb2dca351b6432e324fa59630e6d75d52b5f4e. Corpus topic: argument_or_hearing_time. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified this circuit but published 14 rules against 6,388 verbatim requirements. Whitespace repaired 2026-09-09 (fix program 2026-09-09, Phase 5, audit M7): a space restored after the period in 4 sentence join(s) left by the text layer; wording unchanged. Verbatim from this officer's published procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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