When must expedited Chancery Magistrate-report exceptions be noticed?

Date of the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report in the summary or expedited branch

Do not use the ordinary eleven-day period. Check preserved draft objections, Report status and any applicable Civil Miscellaneous Docket classification.

Responsible actor. The party taking exceptions in a summary or expedited action or dispute. Use the qualifying Report date and independently confirmed summary or expedited status, with no different court direction.

1. Use the qualifying Report date and independently confirmed summary or expedited status, with no different court direction.
2. Exclude the trigger day and count 3 days that are not Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays under Rule 6(a)(1). These are short-period eligible days, not consecutive calendar days.
3. Check the actual holidays, additional closures and applicable electronic or paper boundary.
4. File and serve the three-day notice, then participate in the separate five-day proposal for the Reviewing Judge’s briefing schedule.

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 qualifying Report date and independently confirmed summary or expedited status, with no different court direction. 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.

Short counting

Three days excludes intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.

Miscellaneous docket

Rule 144(d)(4) separately sends specified uncontested or expedited miscellaneous exceptions to this three-day branch.

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 qualifying Report date and independently confirmed summary or expedited status, with no different court direction.
• The base calculation does not obtain an extension, resolve a different branch or establish that the responsible actor completed the required act.

• Date of the qualifying Final Report or Draft Report in the summary or expedited branch
• Do not use the ordinary eleven-day period. Check preserved draft objections, Report status and any applicable Civil Miscellaneous Docket classification.
• Three days excludes intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.
• Rule 144(d)(4) separately sends specified uncontested or expedited miscellaneous exceptions to this three-day branch.
• File and serve the three-day notice, then participate in the separate five-day proposal for the Reviewing Judge’s briefing schedule.
• 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.