There Is NO UMC in Division RL — Everything Is Specially Set — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

There Is NO UMC in Division RL — Everything Is Specially Set

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Motion Calendar15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division RL Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Garrison abolished UMC in his division: every hearing and trial is specially set (small-claims pretrials excepted) — online scheduling handles only 15-minute special sets, anything longer goes through the JA.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"THERE IS NO UMC IN DIVISION RL." / "ALL hearings/trials are specially set (except Small Claims Pretrial Conferences)" / "Division \"RL\" online scheduling is for special set hearings of 15 minutes only." / "Motions that require more than 15 minute hearing must be requested and set by the JA"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rl-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 4 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 094237092798fd736666a312d27b7b9ede49a4c0f24ae14cd2aee9cde1f97a1f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rl/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026