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Every deadline from one trigger date.

Enter a filing or service date and pick a deadline set: the standard chart, FRCP-style short deadlines, discovery responses, appeal windows, or a custom interval. Due dates roll forward past weekends and all eleven US federal holidays. Runs in your browser.

Calculate your deadlines

Enter the trigger date (a filing date, a service date, an order date), pick a deadline set, and get every downstream deadline with weekends and US federal holidays skipped. Nothing is uploaded; the math runs in your browser.

Rule applied: add the calendar days shown, and if the result lands on a weekend or federal holiday, the deadline rolls forward to the next business day. Holidays falling on a Saturday are observed the Friday before; Sunday holidays are observed the Monday after. Always confirm against the rules of your specific court.

Deadlines

DeadlineCalendar daysDue dateDay of week

Sage-colored dates were moved forward from a weekend or holiday to the next business day.

The deadline sets

Standard set — the general chart: 21-day response, 28-day reply, then 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, and 365-day milestones. A useful default when you want the full landscape from one trigger date.

Federal (FRCP-style) — the short intervals that come up constantly in federal practice: 7, 14, 21, 28, and 30 days.

Discovery response set — the 30-day response baseline, the 33-day mark when service was by mail (+3 days), and a 37-day meet-and-confer target.

Appeal / post-judgment set — 14 and 28-day post-judgment windows, the 30-day notice of appeal in federal civil cases, and the 60-day version when the United States is a party.

Custom — any interval with your own label, for the one-off deadline in a scheduling order.

Preset labels are shorthand, not rule citations. The named sets use simple calendar-day counting with a roll-forward — they don't capture every counting nuance in the federal rules (like FRCP 6's treatment of short periods, backward-counted deadlines, or local-rule variations), and a label like "notice of appeal" is a reminder of the typical interval, not advice that the interval applies to your case. Verify controlling deadlines against the rule text and your court's orders before relying on any date here.

How the math works

  1. Add calendar days

    Each deadline adds its full calendar-day count to your trigger date — weekends and holidays are counted along the way, exactly as most "days" rules require.

  2. Check the landing day

    If the resulting date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a US federal holiday, the deadline can't be due that day.

  3. Roll forward to the next business day

    The calculator pushes the due date forward, one day at a time, until it lands on a working day. Adjusted dates are shown in sage green with a note explaining the original landing day.

Holidays this calculator skips

All eleven US federal holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January), Presidents Day (3rd Monday of February), Memorial Day (last Monday of May), Juneteenth (June 19), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (1st Monday of September), Columbus Day (2nd Monday of October), Veterans Day (November 11), Thanksgiving (4th Thursday of November), and Christmas (December 25).

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