When are Chancery requests for admission deemed admitted?

Service of the requests for admission on the responding party

Check the defendant’s process-service date where relevant. Admission follows failure to serve the required answer or objection in the applicable time.

Responsible actor. The party directed to answer the requests for admission. Use the thirty-day branch only where the protected defendant floor does not postpone response. Incoming service was not exclusively by mail and no shorter or longer time applies.

1. Use the thirty-day branch only where the protected defendant floor does not postpone response. Incoming service was not exclusively by mail and no shorter or longer time applies.
2. Exclude the trigger day and count 30 calendar days under Rule 6(a)(1). The less-than-11-day exclusion does not apply. Check the final weekend, legal holiday and actual Register accessibility.
3. Check the actual holidays, additional closures and applicable electronic or paper boundary.
4. Serve signed answers or reasoned objections addressed to each matter and file the notice of service. Preserve the actual response, not merely its preparation.

Rule 6(a)(1) excludes the event day. Periods below eleven days exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays; eleven days or more include them. A final weekend or legal holiday moves forward for an after-event period and backward for a before-event period. Rule 6(a)(3) separately addresses actual Register inaccessibility for filings. Rule 6(a)(5) includes section 501 holidays and days declared by the Governor. Good Friday and Thanksgiving Friday are Delaware holidays. Sunday July 4, 2027 is observed Monday July 5. Check county-specific Sussex Return Day and additional actual closures separately; the bundled calendar does not determine those filing conditions.

Rule 6(c) adds three calendar days after the ordinary Rule 6(a) period only for an act measured after service made exclusively by mail. It applies to party acts, not Court acts. Electronic service, an entry-based clock and a filing-based clock do not acquire that addition merely because a paper copy is mailed. These calculations show the disclosed nonexclusive-mail base component; they do not implement the mail-only addition or infer service effectiveness.

These reviewed calculators use the official edition current as of June 1, 2026. Events before that date and backward periods crossing before that date receive no computed or paid date. This is publication coverage, not a finding that an actual procedural act is late. Historical editions, emergency measures, court-modified dates and actual additional closures require separate review.

Fictitious example

Use the thirty-day branch only where the protected defendant floor does not postpone response. Incoming service was not exclusively by mail and no shorter or longer time applies. Ordinary current-edition facts, no changed order and no exclusively mailed incoming service.

Fictitious current-edition facts. This is the disclosed component with no altered order or additional actual closure. It does not establish effective service, completed filing, judicial action or procedural entitlement. Exclusively mailed incoming-service additions require separate review.

Protected defendant floor

Unless shortened by the Court, a defendant need not respond before forty-five days after process service.

Effect and relief

An admitted matter is conclusively established in this action unless the Court permits withdrawal or amendment under the applicable conditions.

Mail-only service and actual court schedule

Rule 6(c) adds three calendar days after the ordinary Rule 6(a) period only for an act measured after service made exclusively by mail. It applies to party acts, not Court acts. Electronic service, an entry-based clock and a filing-based clock do not acquire that addition merely because a paper copy is mailed. These calculations show the disclosed nonexclusive-mail base component; they do not implement the mail-only addition or infer service effectiveness.

Current edition and historical scope

These reviewed calculators use the official edition current as of June 1, 2026. Events before that date and backward periods crossing before that date receive no computed or paid date. This is publication coverage, not a finding that an actual procedural act is late. Historical editions, emergency measures, court-modified dates and actual additional closures require separate review.

• Use the thirty-day branch only where the protected defendant floor does not postpone response. Incoming service was not exclusively by mail and no shorter or longer time applies.
• The base calculation does not obtain an extension, resolve a different branch or establish that the responsible actor completed the required act.

• Service of the requests for admission on the responding party
• Check the defendant’s process-service date where relevant. Admission follows failure to serve the required answer or objection in the applicable time.
• Unless shortened by the Court, a defendant need not respond before forty-five days after process service.
• An admitted matter is conclusively established in this action unless the Court permits withdrawal or amendment under the applicable conditions.
• Serve signed answers or reasoned objections addressed to each matter and file the notice of service. Preserve the actual response, not merely its preparation.
• For electronic service and filing, Rule 5(d) uses midnight for an original complaint, notice of appeal, or paper in a summary proceeding or an action ordered expedited. Other papers in other actions must be served or filed by 5:00 p.m. Use Delaware local court time and preserve actual completed transmission and docket treatment. Do not replace the ordinary boundary with a federal midnight rule. Rule 5(c)(2)(B) permits self-represented delivery to the Register with the required fee, deemed filed when delivered. Check actual office availability. Rule 5(e) permits the Court, on satisfactory proof, to deem an unsuccessful electronic attempt timely; relief is not automatic.