Small Claims: Coverage Attorneys Capped at 10 Cases, List Due… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Small Claims: Coverage Attorneys Capped at 10 Cases, List Due Monday — Division RS

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division RS Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Silver limits coverage attorneys to 10 cases per pretrial and requires the case list by close of business the Monday before; non-compliant appearance waivers are STRICKEN; default judgments due in 30 days.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RS (Judge Ori Silver)

Source of truth

"COVERAGE ATTORNEYS ARE LIMITED TO 10 CASES AND MUST PROVIDE A LIST OF CASES TO THE JUDICIAL ASSISTANT NO LATER THAN CLOSE OF BUSINESS THE MONDAY BEFORE THE PRETRIAL HEARING" / "Waivers of Appearance MUST comply with Florida Small Claims Rule 7.090 (e). Any waivers not in compliance will be STRICKEN" / "the Plaintiff must provide the Court with a proposed judgment within 30 days"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RS Instructions (Judge Silver)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rs-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 32dda14525244e9fcdb21744baa50f774f2a11c4c52cc464c2b6b9e4b501b933); 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the live page, sha256 94e20af2327fb75f55dfc7e762cdd7e15e70f344b6a7d1b0b2406ea87c407bd6; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rs/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 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RS Instructions (Judge Silver). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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