Never Send the Order Setting Hearing Before the Court Confirms… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Never Send the Order Setting Hearing Before the Court Confirms the Date — Division IZ

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Motion Calendar15th Jud. Cir., Probate Division IZ Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Burton: 30-minute-plus special sets are requested by e-mail with case number, time needed, motion copy, and all parties included — and you do not prepare or send the order setting the hearing until the court has confirmed the date.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"Send an e-mail to CAD-DivisionIZ@pbcgov.org" (case number, time needed, courtesy copy of motion, all parties) / "Do not prepare/or send an order setting the hearing until the court has 'confirm' the date"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division IZ Instructions (Judge Burton)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-iz-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 477efba21b5e2c2d7bd2d03779b79e75eb83fa7867f38c1f86ce393c1a32f176; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] 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]

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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.