Arizona Civil Procedure Deadline Calculator
Computed under Ariz. R. Civ. P. 6 · 45 deadlines across 8 categories
Pick a deadline, enter the trigger date, and this tool applies Arizona's own time-computation rule — excluding the trigger day, and then either counting calendar days or, for any period shorter than eleven days, counting only days that are not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. That threshold is the widest of any state on this site, and it catches far more everyday deadlines than practitioners expect. The tool also applies the five-day service add-on under Rule 6(c) — which, unlike federal practice, does apply to electronic service — and applies it where the rule actually puts it: after the period has been counted, not before. Every result shows its work.
Advanced: additional non-court days
This tool applies the statutory legal holidays in A.R.S. § 1-301 that Rule 6 keys to: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day, Lincoln/Washington Presidents' Day (the two birthdays are combined into one holiday), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. It does not treat Juneteenth as a holiday — A.R.S. § 1-315(B) says in terms that "Juneteenth day is not a legal holiday" — nor Cesar Chavez Day, which is an observance under § 1-308 but is not in the § 1-301(A) list, nor the day after Thanksgiving, which many courts close by administrative order without its being a statutory holiday. Weekend observance follows the statute's own asymmetry: a Sunday holiday moves to Monday, but only New Year's, Independence Day, Veterans' Day and Christmas move from Saturday back to Friday. Add any county closure as a comma-separated YYYY-MM-DD date.
What this tool does not compute
- Justice Court, small claims, and eviction. Each runs on its own rule set — the Justice Court Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Procedure for Eviction Actions — with their own time-computation provisions. Eviction in particular is a much faster track and Civil Rule 6 relief does not apply to it.
- Family, probate, tax and special actions. Separate rule sets. Special actions carry no fixed filing deadline at all.
- The Pima County arbitration threshold. Deliberately omitted: the research conflicted on whether the compulsory-arbitration limit is $1,000 (with FASTAR covering larger cases) or $50,000, and the answer changes which cases are in the program. Check the current local rule.
- The Rule 77(c) appeal deposit amount. Rule 77(c) says a sum equal to one hearing day's compensation of the arbitrator; A.R.S. § 12-133(I) is cited for the arbitrators' total compensation capped at ten per cent of the amount in controversy. Because the rule and the statute appear to diverge, no figure is stated here.
- County-specific closures and local rules. This tool uses the statutory A.R.S. § 1-301 holiday list that Rule 6 keys to. Individual superior courts close on additional days by administrative order — and at least one county's published calendar omits Columbus Day while closing the day after Thanksgiving instead. Add any such day under “additional non-court days” below.