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Georgia Civil Procedure Deadline Calculator

Computed under O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1(d)(3) and the Uniform Superior Court Rules · 38 deadlines across 7 categories

Pick a deadline, enter the trigger date, and this tool applies Georgia's own time-computation rule — excluding the trigger day, rolling the terminal day off weekends and legal holidays, skipping intermediate weekends and holidays entirely for periods under seven days, and adding three days when a paper was served by mail or e-mail — and shows its work, step by step, with the governing statute or rule cited.

Source: O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1(d)(3) (Construction of Statutes Generally) · Georgia Civil Practice Act, Title 9 of the O.C.G.A. · Uniform Superior Court Rules · Appellate Practice Act, Title 5 · Local Governmental and State Tort Claims statutes · Official O.C.G.A. text · Official Uniform Superior Court Rules

Advanced: additional non-court days

This tool hard-codes the federal holiday list Georgia recognizes under O.C.G.A. § 1-4-1, plus the Friday after Thanksgiving (a Governor-designated day observed consistently in recent years) — but the Governor has discretion to proclaim additional days each year (the statute requires at least one of January 19, April 26, or June 3, or a substitute date), and this specific list can't be verified against this project's own statute corpus the way every O.C.G.A. Title 9 or Uniform Superior Court Rule citation in this tool can. Confirm the current year's full list, and add any additional day here as a comma-separated YYYY-MM-DD date.

What this tool does not compute

  • Garnishment and post-judgment collection. Title 18's garnishment and levy procedures (garnishee answer windows, debtor traverse timing) run on their own, recently rewritten schedule this first version doesn't model.
  • Arbitration (Georgia Arbitration Code and Georgia International Commercial Arbitration Code, both within Title 9 but a distinct procedural track, including their own 3-month award-vacatur window), the Abusive Litigation tort (Title 51, a narrower cause of action with its own 30-day safe harbor, different from general pleading sanctions), and individual judges' standing orders — Georgia's Superior Courts are a single statewide trial court of general jurisdiction, so local variation is smaller here than in many other states, but a standing order can still add requirements this tool won't know about.
  • Whether the +3-day mail/e-mail add-on applies to service through the state's own e-filing system. The research behind this tool found genuinely conflicting practitioner authority on this point — see the warning that appears with any service-triggered deadline.