Contested Guardianships Are Heard In Person; UMC Motions… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Contested Guardianships Are Heard In Person; UMC Motions Pre-Read Online — Division IZ

Medium — verify before relying· verified September 18, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Probate Division IZ Divisional Instructions

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Burton holds all contested guardianship proceedings in person, reads every UMC motion online before the hearing, and strictly enforces Rule 1.202 and Local Rule 4 conferral; courtesy copies five business days ahead.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Probate Division IZ (Judge Charles E. Burton)

Source of truth

"all contested Guardianship proceedings shall be held in person" / "Judge Burton will review all motions scheduled for UMC on-line prior to the hearing" / "mandatory compliance with Rule 1.202 and Local Rule No. 4 is strictly enforced" / "five (5) business days prior to the scheduled hearing"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 18, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-17 (text present verbatim on the re-fetched receipt page) | 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-iz-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 e54db1f9d0951be6d0b15f63c7c3ca411a1836f4347980af8810a1b7d45e8f4a); all 4 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 4 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 477efba21b5e2c2d7bd2d03779b79e75eb83fa7867f38c1f86ce393c1a32f176; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] 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 division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/iz/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Probate — Elective Share Trust Litigation Probate — Will Contest Probate — Summary Administration Guardianship — Guardian Appointment Probate — Creditor Claims Probate — Formal Administration Minor Guardianship Emergency Temporary Guardianship Probate — Ancillary Administration Guardianship — Incapacity Determination Baker Act / Marchman Act

Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton). Review before republishing dependent rules.