Motions ABANDONED After 5 Days Unset — Division RH (FS, NC/H) — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Motions ABANDONED After 5 Days Unset — Division RH (FS, NC/H)

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

Summary

Judge Stephens deems motions abandoned when they sit unset for five days — the fastest abandonment clock in the courthouse; hearings are set by CALLING the JA and come within 30 days.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > Division RH — also covering FS and NC/H (Judge Debra Moses Stephens)

Source of truth

"Motions are considered ABANDONED when they have been filed for 5 days but have not been set for a hearing." / "All hearings are set by calling the judicial assistant. This division provides hearings within 30 days."

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rh-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 f186ec83f1c6b4c735bc998180c12b561818fe5baea0ff1725c753d7038763c8); 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the live page, sha256 023d82f51ce233414ba9d8d1c30b06f6966f0aca8d81efa384278dc60dd203ba; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rh/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 RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RH Instructions (Judge Stephens). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026