Oklahoma procedural guides
Last verified August 17, 2026
Plain-English guides to the Oklahoma Code of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.
- Responding to an Oklahoma petition: 20 days, and the extension that costs you defencesOklahoma § 2012 gives 20 days after service of the summons and petition to answer — and offers a 20-day reservation of time that waives six of the defences listed in the same section.
- The Oklahoma motion for new trial: ten days, nine grounds, and a fallback if nobody mailed you the judgmentOklahoma gives ten days from the filing of a conforming judgment to move for a new trial — with a separate ten-day clock if the court records don't show the judgment was mailed to you.
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