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How periods under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure are computed: exclude the trigger day, include the last day unless it falls on a weekend or legal holiday, skip weekends and holidays entirely in periods of five days or less, and count them for the three-day mail-service extensions under Rules 21 and 21a. Justice-court cases count every day under Rule 500.4(a), and appellate periods are computed under Tex. R. App. P. 4.1.
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RULE 4. COMPUTATION OF TIME In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by these rules, by order of court, or by any applicable statute, the day of the act, event, or default after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period so computed is to be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall not be counted for any purpose in any time period of five days or less in these rules, except that Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be counted for purpose of the three-day periods in Rules 21 and 21a, extending other periods by three days when service is made by mail.
Reviewer note: 2026-10-03 (fix program 2026-10-03, N4): the summary said it governs every Texas procedural deadline; justice-court cases count every day under Tex. R. Civ. P. 500.4(a) (Rule 500.1(e) limits the other rules in justice court) and appellate periods are computed under Tex. R. App. P. 4.1(a), both read in the official compilations on 2026-10-03. The requirement text is unchanged. | 2026-10-03 (fix program 2026-10-03, M10): receipt moved to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure compilation posted 2026-10-03 (media 1463426); every quoted fragment of this card is present in it.
1 verbatim requirement on continuances in JEREMY I. FRANKER's division.
1 verbatim requirement on continuances.
Judge Weiss: case law and memos to chambers five business days before the hearing, and every exhibit a party intends to use listed on a notice of discovery and provided to the other side five business days out.