When may another party file a Texas civil notice after the first timely notice?

Identify this party’s applicable ordinary, qualifying ninety-day, accelerated or restricted appeal period.

Obtain the first notice’s filing receipt and establish its timeliness under the governing branch.

Preserve both candidate periods and their actual events before selecting the later date.

1. Identify this party’s applicable ordinary, qualifying ninety-day, accelerated or restricted appeal period.
2. Apply Rule 4.1 separately to the applicable period and the fourteen days after the actual first timely notice. Then compare the two legally established endpoints and take the later. The single-input preset lacks the other party’s applicable period and remains guarded.
3. Apply Rule 4.1 and establish the actual clerk calendar.
4. Complete the required act in the correct court.

Rule 4.1(a) moves a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next eligible day. Rule 4.1(b) separately extends a filing period when the proper clerk is closed or inaccessible during regular hours on the final day, until the next open and accessible day. Preserve the required proof. The encoded Texas holiday calendar covers 2026 through 2028; it does not know additional local closure or system failure.

A single first-notice date cannot establish both later-of limbs. This guide explains the complete comparison and produces no date or paid calculation record.

The first notice must be timely

Rule 26.1(d) begins with any party timely filing a notice. A filing receipt alone does not establish that qualifying fact.

The original applicable period remains a limb

The other party retains the applicable period stated in Rule 26.1. Fourteen days after the first notice is an alternative limb, not an automatic replacement.

Relief-seeking parties need their own notice

Rule 25.1(c) requires a notice from a party seeking to alter the judgment or order, permits aligned parties’ joint notices and states its just-cause exception to more favorable relief.

Extension requires two acts and court discretion

Rule 26.3 permits the appellate court to extend time when the notice is filed in the trial court and a Rule 10.5(b) motion is filed in the appellate court within fifteen days after the applicable notice deadline. Neither calculation nor one filing proves an extension was granted.

Trial-court electronic filing is separate

Civil Rule 21(f)(5) supplies the covered trial-court electronic transmission boundary. An appellate clerk’s filing rule does not replace the trial-clerk destination required by Rule 25.1.

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• Identify this party’s applicable ordinary, qualifying ninety-day, accelerated or restricted appeal period.
• Obtain the first notice’s filing receipt and establish its timeliness under the governing branch.
• Preserve both candidate periods and their actual events before selecting the later date.
• Rule 26.1(d) begins with any party timely filing a notice. A filing receipt alone does not establish that qualifying fact.
• The other party retains the applicable period stated in Rule 26.1. Fourteen days after the first notice is an alternative limb, not an automatic replacement.
• Rule 25.1(c) requires a notice from a party seeking to alter the judgment or order, permits aligned parties’ joint notices and states its just-cause exception to more favorable relief.
• Rule 26.3 permits the appellate court to extend time when the notice is filed in the trial court and a Rule 10.5(b) motion is filed in the appellate court within fifteen days after the applicable notice deadline. Neither calculation nor one filing proves an extension was granted.
• Civil Rule 21(f)(5) supplies the covered trial-court electronic transmission boundary. An appellate clerk’s filing rule does not replace the trial-clerk destination required by Rule 25.1.
• File the written notice with the trial court clerk under Rule 25.1(a). Include the required court, case, party and judgment information under 25.1(d). Rule 25.1(e) separately requires service on the relevant parties and delivery to each responsible court reporter at or before filing. For covered trial-court electronic filing, Civil Rule 21(f)(5) ordinarily uses transmission to the service provider before midnight in the court time zone, with its specified-time, holiday and leave-order exceptions. Preserve filing and service receipts. Rule 25.1(a) addresses a notice mistakenly filed with the appellate court, but the prescribed destination remains the trial court.