Fee Motions Must Attach Time Records — Division RA (Y, FW/FW2, BG/WI)

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge Preferences15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division RA Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > Division RA — also covering Y, FW/FW2, BG/WI (Judge Sara Alijewicz)

Source of truth

"all Motions for attorney's fees and/or costs shall attach a document detailing time records" / "All papers upon which the parties intend to rely...must be filed with the Court in advance"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ra-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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the live page, sha256 61e50903b265a5203252cba4d6028fe954fb10a257080f6d8bee1041bb84e06b; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ra/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 RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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