Interpreters Need 5 Working Days; E-Mail Service Is Mandatory… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Interpreters Need 5 Working Days; E-Mail Service Is Mandatory for Everyone — Division JS

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Juvenile Division JS Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Surber: Spanish and Creole interpreters require at least 5 working days' notice, and every attorney AND self-represented litigant must make and receive service by e-mail.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Juvenile Division JS (Judge Melanie Dale Surber)

Source of truth

"for Spanish and Creole, our interpreters need at least 5 working days advance notice" / "All attorneys and self-represented litigants must make and receive service by e-mail" / "all out-of-court communications with the Court are to be through the Court's Judicial Assistant"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-js-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 4774d6ea88abca9346bfa395c82fc53b56c013a360f8bbbe2c3709130be0d395); 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the live page, sha256 ad05e26926a308526c2d31f0d76947e0d88c6b37a82dfe3fad3287c70ec2b7e8; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/js/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 JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JS Instructions (Judge Surber). Review before republishing dependent rules.