Successive Continuances Highly Disfavored; No Due-Diligence… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Successive Continuances Highly Disfavored; No Due-Diligence Excuse — Division Z

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division Z Divisional Instructions

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Willis: continuances only on good cause; successive continuances highly disfavored, and lack of due diligence is expressly NOT grounds.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division Z (Judge Sarah Willis)

Source of truth

"Motions for continuance are disfavored and will be granted only upon good cause shown" / "Successive continuances are highly disfavored. Lack of due diligence is not grounds for granting a continuance"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 5, 2026Live fetch of official division page — 2026-07-05

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. The official page changed after this rule's verification: on 2026-10-13 the recorded source passage no longer appeared on https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/z/instructions (automated verbatim check, window match 20%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

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Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.