Special Sets Demand Written Responses With Authority 48 Hours… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Special Sets Demand Written Responses With Authority 48 Hours Prior — Division JK

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation15th Jud. Cir., Juvenile Division JK Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Harper requires written responses on special-set hearings with case law/authority 48 hours ahead, memoranda filed directly with the judge's office five business days out, and strict Local Rule 4 compliance.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Juvenile Division JK (Judge Bradley Harper)

Source of truth

"The Court requires written responses on special set hearings, with caselaw/authority provided (48) hours prior to the hearing" / "filed directly with the Judge's office at least five business days prior to the hearing" / "The Court expects strict compliance with Local Rule 4"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division JK Instructions (Judge Harper)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-jk-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 9bf5941d8ae496b565d8cebb64df442e6b15f814f6b89771add5bc99f251dcb8); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 3cbab8ef0a4744f06f5c7fdde8e01ee809e6762fb108dad770539e80ff03a76e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/jk/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 JK Instructions (Judge Harper). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JK Instructions (Judge Harper). Review before republishing dependent rules.