UMC on the Static Zoom Link; Evidentiary Materials in Hard Copy… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

UMC on the Static Zoom Link; Evidentiary Materials in Hard Copy 3 Days Out — Division FY

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Courtesy Copies15th Jud. Cir., Family Division FY Divisional Instructions

Summary

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.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Family Division FY (Judge Laura C. Burkhart)

Source of truth

"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"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-fy-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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the live page, sha256 e7a7ea7b3c5e36d5f01d450579dbf4e0242bcbcb0c5333409128684cba58968b; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/fy/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 FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division FY Instructions (Judge Burkhart). Review before republishing dependent rules.

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

1 verbatim requirement on courtesy copies in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202617th Jud. Cir., Division 82/WC divisional procedures — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Courtesy CopiesDuval County · Circuit Civil Division CV-F · Judge James H. Daniel

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

Judge Daniel is the courthouse outlier who wants NO courtesy copies of pleadings or case law sent to chambers — a sharp contrast with neighboring divisions.

Medium — verify before relying