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North Carolina Civil Procedure Deadline Calculator

Computed under N.C. R. Civ. P. 6(a) and Rule 6(e) · 83 deadlines across 9 categories

Pick a deadline, enter the date that starts it, and this tool counts it the North Carolina way. For any period shorter than seven days, weekends and holidays inside it are skipped, counting forward or back from a hearing. Longer periods count every day and move only the last one, and only past a legal holiday when the courthouse is closed. Service by mail adds three days; e-filing, e-mail and hand delivery add none. Post-trial motions are due in 10 days, not 28. Every result shows its work.

Source: N.C. R. Civ. P. 6 (time), 5, 58 · N.C. R. App. P. 3, 27 · G.S. 103-4 (legal holidays) · G.S. 1-593 · This site’s verbatim North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure · Official G.S. Chapter 1A (ncleg.gov)

Advanced: additional non-court days

Rule 6(a) moves a last day past a legal holiday when the courthouse is closed. This tool treats as closed the G.S. 103-4 holidays on which courts close: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas (a Sunday holiday moves to Monday). Courts also close on the day after Thanksgiving, extra Christmas days and Fridays for Saturday holidays; those are State holidays but not G.S. 103-4 holidays, and no court has said Rule 6(a) rolls past them, so the tool keeps the earlier date and warns you. Columbus Day and the other G.S. 103-4 days on which courts stay open never extend a last day; in a period shorter than seven days the rule excludes all holidays, and this tool skips those days only when counting backward, the safe side. Juneteenth is not a North Carolina legal holiday. Weather closures do not either. Add any extra closure here as YYYY-MM-DD.

What this tool does not compute

  • Local rules and briefing schedules. The Rules set no response-brief deadline for most motions; local rules and the Business Court Rules do.
  • Weather and emergency closures. A closure is not a legal holiday, so Rule 6(a) does not roll past it. Relief may come from a Chief Justice’s emergency order (G.S. 7A-39) or, for most deadlines, a motion to the court; do not count on either.
  • Family law, juvenile, foreclosure and summary ejectment timelines, which run on their own statutes.
  • Removal to federal court. Use the Federal Deadline Calculator.