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New Jersey Civil Procedure Deadline Calculator

Computed under R. 1:3-1 and R. 1:3-3 · 62 deadlines across 8 categories

Pick a deadline, enter the trigger date, and this tool applies New Jersey's own time-computation rule — excluding the trigger day, and then either counting calendar days or, for any period shorter than seven days, counting only days that are not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, which is the carve-out federal practice abandoned in 2009. It also applies the five-day ordinary-mail add-on under R. 1:3-3 (raised from three days effective April 1, 2022) where, and only where, the rule actually reaches. Every result shows its work, step by step, with the governing rule or statute cited.

Source: New Jersey Rules of Court, R. 1:3-1 (Computation of Time) · R. 1:3-3 (Additional Time After Service by Ordinary Mail) · R. 1:3-4 (Enlargement) · R. 1:6-3 (Motions) · R. 2:4-1 to 2:4-3 (Appeals) · This site's own verbatim New Jersey Rules of Court, Part IV · N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-27 (Affidavit of Merit) · N.J.S.A. 59:8-8 (Tort Claims Act notice) · Official current Rules of Court (NJ Courts)

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This tool applies New Jersey's own legal-holiday set — New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth (the third Friday in June, not June 19), Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, General Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. It does not treat Lincoln's Birthday or the day after Thanksgiving as court holidays: the Judiciary's own Schedule of Legal Holidays and Court Recesses omits both, even though N.J.S.A. 36:1-1 lists Lincoln's Birthday as a public holiday. The Judiciary also closes for a Statewide Judicial College and a year-end recess whose dates change annually and are not legal holidays — add any such day here as a comma-separated YYYY-MM-DD date.

What this tool does not compute

  • Special Civil Part (R. 6). Small claims and Landlord/Tenant run a materially different motion procedure under R. 6:3-3 — no stated presentation time, a ten-day objection window, and no automatic oral argument — so it cannot safely share this page's 16/8/4 return-date engine.
  • Chancery Division, General Equity, and foreclosure. R. 4:5A-1 excludes probate, foreclosure and general equity from the track system entirely. The one foreclosure figure modeled here is the governmental answer under R. 4:64-1(i).
  • Family Part (R. 5), probate (R. 4:80 et seq.), and summary actions by order to show cause (R. 4:67) — the last of these is assigned to Track I by R. 4:5A-1, but proceeds on an accelerated schedule the judge fixes in the order itself, so the nominal 150 days does not describe it.
  • The cross-appeal period. Deliberately omitted: the research reports disagreed (15 days against 45 days), neither verified it, and Part II of the Rules of Court is outside this site's own New Jersey corpus, so it could not be settled here. Check R. 2:4-2 directly.
  • Motions in limine. New Jersey sets no statewide number-of-days deadline; the pretrial order or the individual judge does.