Evidentiary Motions Filed 14 Days Before Calendar Call… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Evidentiary Motions Filed 14 Days Before Calendar Call — Division P

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division P Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Castor requires motions needing an evidentiary hearing on file at least 14 days before calendar call; continuance motions must state grounds, length requested, and/or the new date.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division P (Judge Frank S. Castor)

Source of truth

"motions requiring an evidentiary hearing...must be filed...not less than 14 days before calendar call" / "must contain the grounds for the continuance and the length of time requested and/or new date"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division P Instructions (Judge Castor)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-p-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/2 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 976982b57470c4a9b91be581cb4dbdff4cf0eb073feb46b66246ff28cd1b4feb; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/p/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 PBC County Court — Division P Instructions (Judge Castor). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division P Instructions (Judge Castor). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division P Instructions (Judge Castor). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 28, 2026