No Hard Copies or Binders Accepted — Division RL · BenchPath

No Hard Copies or Binders Accepted — Division RL

High confidence· verified August 4, 2026Courtesy Copies15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division RL Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Garrison refuses hard copies and binders outright; orders come in Word, remote hearings run on Zoom, and small-claims pretrials are in person, Tuesday afternoons, Courtroom 6-K.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RL (Judge Edward A. Garrison)

Source of truth

"Hard copies of documents, binders, etc will not be accepted." / "All proposed order for Division RL shall be submitted in WORD format" / "Small Claims Pretrial Conferences are conducted on Tuesday afternoons IN PERSON in Courtroom 6-K."

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 3, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rl-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 1a2165e5c3cb4d1241f4249ea6984a720f518d4f35e647ed3409b1cf262dd882); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 094237092798fd736666a312d27b7b9ede49a4c0f24ae14cd2aee9cde1f97a1f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]

Small Claims County Civil

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 28, 2026

Thirteenth Cir. — Judge Mark R. Wolfe: Courtesy copies

3 verbatim courtroom requirements from Judge Mark R. Wolfe's published division procedures.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, division procedures published by Judge Mark R. Wolfe — sha256-hashed 2026-08-02

Courtesy CopiesHillsborough County · Probate, Guardianship, Mental Health & Trust Division A · Judge Catherine M. Catlin

Case Law and Tabbed Exhibit Binders 5 Business Days Out — Probate A

Judge Catlin: all case-law authority AND all hearing/trial exhibits due at least five business days ahead — exhibits in an indexed, tabbed binder — with mediation mandatory before any 2-hour-plus hearing on pain of cancellation.

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No Hard Copies or Binders Accepted — Division RL

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