What filing period and eligibility govern a Texas restricted civil appeal?

Obtain the signed judgment and identify its actual signing date.

Establish whether the party participated personally or through counsel in the hearing producing the challenged judgment.

Check all timely postjudgment motions, findings requests and ordinary notices that affect Rule 30 eligibility.

1. Obtain the signed judgment and identify its actual signing date.
2. The rule uses six months, not a fixed 180-day substitute. Establish the actual calendar-month endpoint and Rule 4.1 treatment under the governing law. This guide calculates no endpoint or alternative month-end result.
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.

This reviewed guide establishes the calendar-month wording and restricted eligibility. It does not release a fixed-day substitute, decide disputed hearing participation or publish a calculated restricted-appeal date.

Hearing participation matters

Rule 30 concerns a party who did not participate personally or through counsel in the hearing resulting in the challenged judgment. Establish the actual hearing and participation facts.

Timely postjudgment acts can exclude the route

Rule 30 also requires the absence of a timely postjudgment motion, findings request or notice within its stated Rule 26.1(a) time. Do not infer eligibility merely because six months have not expired.

No-notice signing relief does not extend restricted perfection

Rule 4.2(a)(2) expressly excludes extending restricted-appeal perfection under that paragraph.

Restricted notice has additional contents

Rule 25.1(d)(7) requires the restricted status and participation and timely-filing statements. An unrepresented appellant must verify the notice.

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.

• The calculator does not decide appealability, disputed classification, the merits, entitlement to relief or sufficiency of a filing.
• The consolidation date does not establish applicability of every historical amendment. Read the actual governing edition and orders.

• Obtain the signed judgment and identify its actual signing date.
• Establish whether the party participated personally or through counsel in the hearing producing the challenged judgment.
• Check all timely postjudgment motions, findings requests and ordinary notices that affect Rule 30 eligibility.
• Rule 30 concerns a party who did not participate personally or through counsel in the hearing resulting in the challenged judgment. Establish the actual hearing and participation facts.
• Rule 30 also requires the absence of a timely postjudgment motion, findings request or notice within its stated Rule 26.1(a) time. Do not infer eligibility merely because six months have not expired.
• Rule 4.2(a)(2) expressly excludes extending restricted-appeal perfection under that paragraph.
• Rule 25.1(d)(7) requires the restricted status and participation and timely-filing statements. An unrepresented appellant must verify the notice.
• 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.