Judge Burkhart runs all UMC hearings on the Court's static Zoom link, but wants evidentiary-hearing case law, motions, and memoranda in HARD COPY at least three days before — and the Judge must get a courtesy copy of the Notice for Trial.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Family Division FY (Judge Laura C. Burkhart)
"All UMC hearings will be conducted via the Court's Static Zoom Link" / "case law, motions or memorandums of law, etc. must be submitted to the Court in hard copy no less than three days before the scheduled hearing" / "JUDGE MUST RECEIVE A COURTESY COPY OF THE NOTICE FOR TRIAL"
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fy-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 46e7ef0cdbf3d533edf7d7f3ed40cf3ec32a977604db5b39990d7ebdde247ef4); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 e7a7ea7b3c5e36d5f01d450579dbf4e0242bcbcb0c5333409128684cba58968b; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
3 verbatim courtroom requirements from Judge Mark R. Wolfe's published division procedures.
Judge Catlin: all case-law authority AND all hearing/trial exhibits due at least five business days ahead — exhibits in an indexed, tabbed binder — with mediation mandatory before any 2-hour-plus hearing on pain of cancellation.
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