When may a party object to a master’s order or report?

Preserve the actual master’s order, report or recommendations and evidence of copy service.

Identify the actual service method and any different time set by the court.

Identify the requested objection, adoption or modification and the actual appointing order.

1. Identify the actual actor, pleading and required act.
2. Establish the specified event and applicable order.
3. Resolve the material conditions. This guide publishes no calculated date.
4. Check final-day conditions and preserve service and filing evidence separately.

Establish effective service and apply Rule 6(a) to the base period. Rule 6(d) adds three days only to a specified period after being served under Rule 5(b)(2)(C), (D) or (F). Compute the underlying Rule 6(a) expiry first, then add three days and recheck the final day. Electronic service under (E) and office or dwelling delivery under (B) do not qualify. Filing, judgment entry, one’s own service and backward lead times do not automatically attract the addition. This guide does not select a service method or compute a date.

Rule 6(a) excludes the operative event and counts intermediate calendar days. A final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday moves forward. Rule 6(a)(6) includes federal and President or Congress declared holidays, plus state-declared holidays for forward periods in the district. Qualifying clerk inaccessibility matters separately for filing.

The actual copy-service method and court-set time affect the period. The isolated single-date preset does not establish those conditions or publish a date.

Actual served copy

Rule 53(f)(2) uses service of a copy, rather than assuming that report filing or docket entry automatically establishes the event.

Court-set time and addition

The court may set another time. Rule 6(d) adds three days only to a specified period after being served under Rule 5(b)(2)(C), (D) or (F). Compute the underlying Rule 6(a) expiry first, then add three days and recheck the final day. Electronic service under (E) and office or dwelling delivery under (B) do not qualify. Filing, judgment entry, one’s own service and backward lead times do not automatically attract the addition.

Review standards separate

Rule 53(f)(3)–(5) separately addresses factual findings, legal conclusions and procedural matters. A calculated period does not determine the appropriate standard or merits.

• This page does not establish effective service, merits, compliance or an actual court grant.
• Service and filing are different acts. Verify both when required.

• Preserve the actual master’s order, report or recommendations and evidence of copy service.
• Rule 53(f)(2) uses service of a copy, rather than assuming that report filing or docket entry automatically establishes the event.
• The court may set another time. Rule 6(d) adds three days only to a specified period after being served under Rule 5(b)(2)(C), (D) or (F). Compute the underlying Rule 6(a) expiry first, then add three days and recheck the final day. Electronic service under (E) and office or dwelling delivery under (B) do not qualify. Filing, judgment entry, one’s own service and backward lead times do not automatically attract the addition.
• Rule 53(f)(3)–(5) separately addresses factual findings, legal conclusions and procedural matters. A calculated period does not determine the appropriate standard or merits.
• For filing, Rule 6(a)(4) ordinarily uses midnight in the court’s time zone for electronic filing and scheduled clerk closing for other filing. A statute, local rule or order may set another time. These filing cutoffs do not establish effective service by every method. Preserve evidence of each actual required act.