How to get excused from jury duty in Palm Beach County, Florida
The excusal routes Palm Beach County, Florida actually recognizes — what each one needs, who decides, and where it goes.
Address the letter to the Chief Judge — not to Jury Services. Jury Management confirmed the process by email on 1 September 2026: “a juror can write a letter requesting excusal from jury service and send it to our office before their scheduled date (addressed to the Chief Judge) to explain their situation and the Judge would either grant or deny their request.” A judge reads it, which is worth knowing before you write it. And a refusal is not the end: if the request is denied you can still postpone up to six months. Postponements need no explanation at all — two of them, within six months, and the date you pick cannot be a Friday or a holiday.
Your routes in Palm Beach County, Florida
Age exemptionUsually automatic
Most Florida counties recognize an age-based exemption — no letter needed in most cases.
See the full detail →PostponementFree — two of them, and no reason needed
Palm Beach gives every juror two postponements with no explanation required, within six months. If a later date solves the problem, this is the whole answer.
Jury Management, Palm Beach County — confirmed by email, 1 September 2026. In the office’s own words: “a postponement may be requested without an explanation as jurors are entitled to two postponements not to exceed six months and must select a day that does not fall on a Friday or Holiday.” Two is unusually generous, and no reason is required for either. If your problem is timing rather than money, stop here — there is nothing to write, nothing to prove and nothing to buy. It is also the fallback if a hardship request is refused: the office states that a juror whose excusal is denied can still postpone up to six months.
See the full detail →Financial hardshipA letter, read by the Chief Judge
Palm Beach genuinely decides this from a letter you write — addressed to the Chief Judge, sent before your scheduled date. The judge grants or denies it.
Fla. Stat. § 40.013, as Palm Beach applies it — confirmed by email, 1 September 2026. Florida’s standard is hardship, extreme inconvenience or public necessity, and Palm Beach applies it the old-fashioned way: you write a letter and a judge reads it. Jury Management confirmed the route in its own words — “a juror can write a letter requesting excusal from jury service and send it to our office before their scheduled date (addressed to the Chief Judge) to explain their situation and the Judge would either grant or deny their request.” The addressing matters. A letter headed to Jury Services is a letter to an administrator; this one is being read by the Chief Judge, and it should be written that way. Note also that a refusal costs you nothing: “if the excusal request is denied, a juror can postpone their jury service date up to six months.”
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Prepare your Hardship Letter →Caregiver or medical conditionHigh, with documentation
Physician's note or caregiver documentation accepted.
Fla. Stat. § 40.013. Recognizes medical conditions and caregiver obligations, with documentation.
See the full detail →Contact the court
Jury Management, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County, 205 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach FL 33401Jury line: (561) 355-2930
Choose option 1. Email [email protected] — that is the address the office replies from, and it answered this project directly. (An older juryclerkweb@ address is published on the Clerk’s contact page.)
Choose option 1. Email [email protected] — that is the address the office replies from, and it answered this project directly. (An older juryclerkweb@ address is published on the Clerk’s contact page.)
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