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Judge Small runs dependency trials on a fixed clock from the trial-setting hearing: witness/exhibit lists in 1 week, pre-trial motions in 2 weeks (late ones deemed WAIVED), joint case brief, case law, and redacted records in 4 weeks — and DCF drafts the proposed order within 14 days, with unrecorded objections waived.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Juvenile Division JA/JM (Judge Lisa S. Small)
"To be filed and exchanged no later than one (1) week after the trial-setting hearing." / "any motions not timely filed will be deemed waived." / "To be filed no later than four (4) weeks after the trial-setting hearing." / "The proposed Order shall be provided to the Court no later than fourteen (14) days from the date of the hearing" / "the Court will not accept Agreed Orders for Case Plan Approvals."
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ja-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 dc81cb78a056b905daaa437b5238c94f12de033fe242a919d40e6a586f56c919); all 5 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 5 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 dc81cb78a056b905daaa437b5238c94f12de033fe242a919d40e6a586f56c919; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
Judge Wolfe enforces AO S-2024-062(28)(A) with teeth: every pretrial motion in a case transferred to TD-3 must be scheduled and heard by the original transferring judge — failure to do so timely is deemed a waiver.
Judge Rice mirrors the F-division waiver with an exception: all motions other than motions in limine must be filed AND heard before the Pretrial Conference or they are waived; limine motions must at least be filed by then.
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