Motions Set Within 15 Days, Heard Within 30 — Division RB — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Motions Set Within 15 Days, Heard Within 30 — Division RB

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

Summary

Judge Barnett puts motions on a clock: set for hearing within 15 days of filing, heard within 30 — UMC runs Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00–10:00 a.m.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RB (Judge Michael A. Barnett)

Source of truth

"Motions must be set for hearing within 15 days of the date they are filed, and the hearing must take place within 30 days" / "UMCs will be held 2 days of the week, Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:00 – 10:00 am"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rb-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 e4b8297eadae16aae93e0045f42b8b3ad04b11a368051158c0130ad2cd0273a6); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 2abbfff8037205d6f9d78a42289e5cf3c5bbe11bd2a0ea5edb9c898f9ac61f10; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rb/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

County Civil

Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026