What is the ordinary deadline for an Illinois Section 2-1401 petition?

Preserve the exact final order, its entry date and the intended petition grounds.

Confirm the requested procedure concerns relief after thirty days under subsection (a).

Investigate legal disability, duress, fraudulent concealment of grounds, statutory exceptions and any void-order contention before using the ordinary count.

1. Preserve the exact final order, its entry date and the intended petition grounds.
2. Count two calendar years from final entry. Subsection (c) excludes time during legal disability or duress, and time while grounds for relief are fraudulently concealed. Those adjustments require facts this one-date calculation does not collect.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. File the petition in the same proceeding. Subsection (b) specifies that it is not a continuation of that proceeding. Preserve supporting affidavit or other appropriate showing for matters outside the record.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

Fictitious example

Use the ordinary unadjusted two-year component after final entry. Do not use it where excluded time, a specified exception, immigration plea relief or void-order grounds change the analysis. Fictitious statutory event, independently established under the precise scope stated in this guide. Use the ordinary unadjusted two-year component after final entry. Do not use it where excluded time, a specified exception, immigration plea relief or void-order grounds change the analysis.

Fictitious ordinary petition with no excluded time or special ground. This date neither suspends the judgment nor resolves the petition’s merits.

Excluded time needs its own chronology

Subsection (c) excludes legal disability, duress and fraudulent concealment of grounds for relief. Identify the qualifying interval; delayed awareness alone is not the stated concealment condition.

The section lists special statutory exceptions

Subsection (c) identifies exceptions involving Adoption Act Section 20(b), Juvenile Court Act Section 2-32, Criminal Procedure Section 116-3, subsections (b-5) and (b-10), and specified cannabis expungement relief.

Certain immigration-related pleas have different timing

Subsection (c-5) permits the stated petition at any time for a guilty or nolo contendere plea where the conviction has potential consequences under federal immigration law.

Filing does not suspend judgment

Subsection (d) states that filing the petition does not affect the order or judgment or suspend its operation. A petition is not itself a stay.

Void-order relief is preserved separately

Subsection (f) preserves existing rights or methods for relief from a void order or judgment. Do not apply the ordinary two-year output as a universal bar to every void-order argument.

• This calculation does not determine whether relief is available or whether the facts satisfy the statute.
• A current statutory edition does not establish the law for every historical claim. Preserve the applicable edition and actual orders.

• Preserve the exact final order, its entry date and the intended petition grounds.
• Confirm the requested procedure concerns relief after thirty days under subsection (a).
• Investigate legal disability, duress, fraudulent concealment of grounds, statutory exceptions and any void-order contention before using the ordinary count.
• Subsection (c) excludes legal disability, duress and fraudulent concealment of grounds for relief. Identify the qualifying interval; delayed awareness alone is not the stated concealment condition.
• Subsection (c) identifies exceptions involving Adoption Act Section 20(b), Juvenile Court Act Section 2-32, Criminal Procedure Section 116-3, subsections (b-5) and (b-10), and specified cannabis expungement relief.
• Subsection (c-5) permits the stated petition at any time for a guilty or nolo contendere plea where the conviction has potential consequences under federal immigration law.
• Subsection (d) states that filing the petition does not affect the order or judgment or suspend its operation. A petition is not itself a stay.
• Subsection (f) preserves existing rights or methods for relief from a void order or judgment. Do not apply the ordinary two-year output as a universal bar to every void-order argument.
• File the petition in the same proceeding. Subsection (b) specifies that it is not a continuation of that proceeding. Preserve supporting affidavit or other appropriate showing for matters outside the record. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.