ALL Hearings in Division M Are In Person — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

ALL Hearings in Division M Are In Person

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division M Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Zuckerman holds every hearing in person — the bluntest appearance rule in the courthouse; remote appearance takes a written motion filed at least 3 days ahead.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division M (Judge Ashley Zuckerman)

Source of truth

"All hearings in Division M are held in person." / "Any request to appear remotely for a hearing must be made by written motion filed with the Clerk no later than three (3) days before."

Official source: PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-m-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 2/2 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 8b3348c5c303da36babc43516eef710da8dddb3b5f3052b1fb9ace12d2e941b7; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/m/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 PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division M Instructions (Judge Zuckerman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026