When must a New York cross-motion be personally served?

Read the original notice and establish whether a sixteen-day demand properly invokes the seven-day branch. This preset selects the no-qualified-demand branch.

Identify the actual cross-motion service method. The ordinary three-day personal-service base is not the mailing or overnight target.

Responsible actor. The party seeking its own relief by cross-motion. Three-day personal-service cross-motion base only, no qualifying sixteen-day demand, actual open-day return date and no different order. Mail and overnight targets are not calculated.

1. Read the original notice and establish whether a sixteen-day demand properly invokes the seven-day branch. This preset selects the no-qualified-demand branch.
2. Identify the actual cross-motion service method. The ordinary three-day personal-service base is not the mailing or overnight target.
3. Exclude the actual return day and count 3 calendar days backward. Intermediate weekends and public holidays remain in the count. General Construction Law 25-a permits the next succeeding business day for a closed final statutory day.
4. Serve notice of cross-motion demanding the relief, with supporting papers if any, and complete required court furnishing and filing. Mere opposition does not automatically request affirmative relief.

General Construction Law 20 excludes the event day. Its closed-intervening-day exception applies to an exact two-day period, not to a one-day period. Intermediate weekends and public holidays count in other calendar-day periods. Section 25-a expressly includes statutory periods before which an act is due and permits the next succeeding business day for a closed final day. Rollover can place a backward boundary on the return date; preserve the stated hour and actual court directions. Roberts, a separately identified uncorrected Supreme Court decision concerning opposition to a cross-motion, applied section 25-a to a Sunday boundary before a Monday return. It is corroboration of that final-day treatment, not a different universal briefing rule.

The independently derived 2026 and 2027 calendar follows General Construction Law 24 and Election Law 8-100. It includes Lincoln’s Birthday, Flag Day on the second Sunday in June, Juneteenth, general election day and the other specified holidays. Section 24 adds the next day when a listed holiday falls on Sunday, except Flag Day. A Saturday holiday is not automatically observed on Friday under this provision. Additional appointed holidays and actual court or system closures require separate proof.

These calculators cover established events and final dates within January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. They require the disclosed statutory branch, independently valid service, no unsupported method addition, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Backward presets require an actual open-day return date. Earlier editions, the 2020 executive-order toll and dates beyond the retained calendar require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software coverage boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

Fictitious example

Three-day personal-service cross-motion base only, no qualifying sixteen-day demand, actual open-day return date and no different order. Mail and overnight targets are not calculated. Fictitious established event on the input date. Three-day personal-service cross-motion base only, no qualifying sixteen-day demand, actual open-day return date and no different order. Mail and overnight targets are not calculated.

Fictitious established facts. The result does not prove valid service, the required exception, actual filing, preserved jurisdiction or a granted court extension. The applicable hour and actual court directions remain separate checks.

Qualified demand

A demand properly made under CPLR 2214(b) changes the cross-motion base to seven days. Use the linked qualified-demand question.

Mail service

CPLR 2215(a) requires three days earlier service than the applicable base. It does not use the ordinary five-day CPLR 2103 forward response addition.

Overnight delivery

CPLR 2215(b) requires one day earlier service than the base. That express backward requirement is separate from the one-business-day response addition in CPLR 2103.

Relief and supporting papers

The cross-motion can demand alternative or several forms of relief, and relief need not respond to the original motion. Preserve actual notice and any supporting papers.

Edition and calendar coverage

These calculators cover established events and final dates within January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. They require the disclosed statutory branch, independently valid service, no unsupported method addition, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Backward presets require an actual open-day return date. Earlier editions, the 2020 executive-order toll and dates beyond the retained calendar require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software coverage boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

• Three-day personal-service cross-motion base only, no qualifying sixteen-day demand, actual open-day return date and no different order. Mail and overnight targets are not calculated.
• The selected date supplies only the disclosed statutory branch. It does not validate the facts or authorize an unmodeled alternative.

• Read the original notice and establish whether a sixteen-day demand properly invokes the seven-day branch. This preset selects the no-qualified-demand branch.
• Identify the actual cross-motion service method. The ordinary three-day personal-service base is not the mailing or overnight target.
• Serve notice of cross-motion demanding the relief, with supporting papers if any, and complete required court furnishing and filing. Mere opposition does not automatically request affirmative relief.
• A demand properly made under CPLR 2214(b) changes the cross-motion base to seven days. Use the linked qualified-demand question.
• CPLR 2215(a) requires three days earlier service than the applicable base. It does not use the ordinary five-day CPLR 2103 forward response addition.
• CPLR 2215(b) requires one day earlier service than the base. That express backward requirement is separate from the one-business-day response addition in CPLR 2103.
• The cross-motion can demand alternative or several forms of relief, and relief need not respond to the original motion. Preserve actual notice and any supporting papers.
• In the applicable Supreme Court NYSCEF program, rule 202.5-b(d)(3)(i) permits transmission day or night and identifies recorded transmission with required fee information or permitted actual later payment as the filing event. Interlocutory service under (f)(2) depends on the transmitted NYSCEF notification reaching the proper participating addresses. Filing initiating papers does not itself establish defendant service. Under (h)(2), the clerk’s entry notification is not party service of notice of entry. Preserve the actual document, proof, timestamp, fee event, recipients and court requirements. Paper filing requires the applicable office procedure and receipt. The qualifying technical-failure and emergency hard-copy branches in (i) and (d)(1)(iii) require their actual conditions and later electronic filing; they are not presumed here.