No Telephonic Appearance at Eviction Mediations or Final… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

No Telephonic Appearance at Eviction Mediations or Final Hearings — Division RD

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

Summary

Judge Corlew permits remote appearance only without objection and with approval — and never at eviction mediations or final hearings without prior approval.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RD (Judge Reginald Corlew)

Source of truth

"The Court does NOT allow telephonic appearances at eviction mediations or final hearings without prior approval" / "Telephonic/remote appearance are permitted if there is no objection by the opposing party, and with approval"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RD Instructions (Judge Corlew)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rd-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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, partially-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 414a52bd1f5c40c77f7f90058a6d6de2af394c0baa6623f910e950c78eb9dedd; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rd/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 Landlord/Tenant & Eviction

Change history

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