When must a Delaware civil notice of appeal be filed?

Rule 6(a)(i) requires filing within 30 days after entry of the appealed judgment, order or decree on the trial docket. Section 146 supplies a distinct disability exception. Rule 11(b) does not permit enlarging the appeal period.

Responsible actor. The party taking the civil appeal.

Obtain the entered disposition and docket entry.

Establish finality and the effect of any actual postjudgment motion or order.

Identify every party, recipient and transcript designation required by Rule 7.

Use an established appealable civil disposition and its trial-docket entry. Exclude the section 146 exception, an unresolved finality issue and the separate interlocutory-acceptance procedure.

1. Trial-docket entry of the appealable civil judgment, order or decree
2. Exclude the established event day and count the stated component under Rule 11(a). No participant service addition is applied to this nonservice event.
3. Serve the Rule 7 notice on the required attorneys or unrepresented parties. File the notice, judgment or order, available rationale and service proof with the Supreme Court Clerk. Mailing alone does not establish filing.

Rule 11(a) excludes the event day. A prescribed period below seven days excludes intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Seven days and longer count those intermediate days. A final Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or actual Clerk closure receives the stated next-open-day treatment. A backward five-day motion component counts earlier eligible days to preserve its required lead. Do not apply the separate Chancery or Superior Court eleven-day threshold.

The 2026 named calendar follows the Court’s published statewide holidays. The 2027 dates are projections of 1 Del. C. § 501 and its fixed-holiday observation rule. December 31, 2027 is the observed New Year holiday for Saturday, January 1, 2028. These dates do not confirm future amendments, Governor or Chief Justice appointments or actual additional closures. Sussex Return Day afternoon is not treated as a statewide full-day Supreme Court closure. Review any actual additional closure separately.

Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed period after incoming service by mail or eFiling. Personal service adds none. The addition enters the period before Rule 11(a) counting and final-day treatment. It does not apply to Court acts or to an entry, filing, issuance or acceptance event merely because a copy is served. Rule 10(b) completes mail service on mailing. Rule 10.1(h) treats authorized electronic service like mail for the addition. A convenience email notification under Rule 10.2(6)(d) is not the service event.

Reviewed coverage uses the retained Supreme Court compilation current through February 2, 2026, for established events on or after that compilation boundary and final dates through December 31, 2027. The index label is not a new effective date for every civil rule. Historical events, backward periods crossing that boundary, later dates, changed orders and actual additional closures require separate review. No computed or paid date is supplied for an input outside that coverage. This boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

Fictitious example

Fictitious established current-edition event. Personal service where the period runs from service. No altered order or additional closure.

Fictitious established facts. The example does not establish applicability, actual service, completed filing, an extension, entitlement or a special closure. Use an established appealable civil disposition and its trial-docket entry. Exclude the section 146 exception, an unresolved finality issue and the separate interlocutory-acceptance procedure.

Disability exception

10 Del. C. 146 addresses a qualifying minor or mentally incompetent party not represented below by the specified guardian or trustee. Its clock begins when the disability ceases.

No appeal enlargement

A motion or ordinary briefing extension does not enlarge the notice-of-appeal period. Establish any asserted tolling basis instead of assuming extra days.

Different appellate routes

Interlocutory orders require Rule 42 acceptance. A DRAA final award has a separate issuance-based fifteen-day challenge period.

Participant service and Court acts

Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed period after incoming service by mail or eFiling. Personal service adds none. The addition enters the period before Rule 11(a) counting and final-day treatment. It does not apply to Court acts or to an entry, filing, issuance or acceptance event merely because a copy is served. Rule 10(b) completes mail service on mailing. Rule 10.1(h) treats authorized electronic service like mail for the addition. A convenience email notification under Rule 10.2(6)(d) is not the service event.

Compilation and calendar coverage

Reviewed coverage uses the retained Supreme Court compilation current through February 2, 2026, for established events on or after that compilation boundary and final dates through December 31, 2027. The index label is not a new effective date for every civil rule. Historical events, backward periods crossing that boundary, later dates, changed orders and actual additional closures require separate review. No computed or paid date is supplied for an input outside that coverage. This boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

• Use an established appealable civil disposition and its trial-docket entry. Exclude the section 146 exception, an unresolved finality issue and the separate interlocutory-acceptance procedure.
• The stated component does not obtain an extension, establish completed acts or decide an excluded procedural branch.

• Obtain the entered disposition and docket entry.
• Establish finality and the effect of any actual postjudgment motion or order.
• Identify every party, recipient and transcript designation required by Rule 7.
• 10 Del. C. 146 addresses a qualifying minor or mentally incompetent party not represented below by the specified guardian or trustee. Its clock begins when the disability ceases.
• A motion or ordinary briefing extension does not enlarge the notice-of-appeal period. Establish any asserted tolling basis instead of assuming extra days.
• Interlocutory orders require Rule 42 acceptance. A DRAA final award has a separate issuance-based fifteen-day challenge period.
• For the paper participants described in Rule 10, serve the required recipients and complete filing by actual Clerk or Deputy Clerk receipt during regular business hours. Mailing a filing on the final day does not establish receipt. Registered eFiling under Rules 10.1 and 10.2 uses the recorded completed transaction. In nonexpedited cases, ordinary electronic filings must finish by 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Notices of appeal and electronic filings in expedited cases must finish before midnight Eastern Time. Electronic service requires selection of recipients and submission through File & Serve. Preserve the receipt identifying date, time, method and recipients. The email notification alone is not service. Rule 10.2(10) permits relief for specified filing or service errors only upon satisfactory proof and a Court order; no automatic extension is calculated.