Substantive Pre-Trial Motions Flagged 10 Days Before Trial… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Substantive Pre-Trial Motions Flagged 10 Days Before Trial — Division FX

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation15th Jud. Cir., Family Division FX Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Rowe wants any pre-trial substantive motion needing more than 10 minutes per side brought to the Court's attention at least 10 days before trial; continuances get no due-diligence excuse.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Family Division FX (Judge Cymonie S. Rowe)

Source of truth

"Any pre-trial substantive motions of more than 10 minutes per side should be brought to the attention of the Court at least 10 days prior to trial" / "Motions for continuance are disfavored and will be granted only upon good cause shown" / "Lack of due diligence is not grounds for granting a continuance"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 25, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fx-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/3 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 a4b1025c8db930bacaaeaf9947c9e36a5293f3787e71d8734f2b33199386e37f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/fx/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FX Instructions (Judge Rowe). Review before republishing dependent rules.