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When is a Texas accelerated civil notice of appeal due?

For the established Rule 26.1(b) accelerated civil branch, file the notice within twenty days after the judgment or order is signed. Rule 28.1(b) preserves a different statutory provision and states that posttrial motions and findings requests do not extend perfection. This calculator does not decide acceleration or a special statutory timetable.

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Period: Twenty calendar days after signing under Rule 26.1(b)
Trigger: Actual signing of the judgment or order in the applicable twenty-day accelerated branch
Rule: Texas appellate Rule 26.1(b), 28.1(a)–(b)

Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure

Official consolidation dated February 6, 2026, with individual amendments and applicability provisions

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Actual signing of the judgment or order in the applicable twenty-day accelerated branch

Use only for an independently established accelerated civil appeal governed by the twenty-day Rule 26.1(b) period, without a different statutory filing timetable.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

20 days from Signing of the judgment or order

TRAP 26.1(b)Binding

Rule notes

Accelerated appeals include appeals from interlocutory orders when allowed by statute, quo warranto appeals, appeals required by statute to be accelerated or expedited, and appeals required by law to be perfected in less than 30 days (TRAP 28.1(a)). A motion for new trial, other post-trial motion or request for findings does NOT extend this deadline (TRAP 28.1(b)).

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Which actual event starts this appellate period?

Obtain the signed judgment or interlocutory order and its signing date.

Establish the law permitting the appeal and requiring acceleration.

Check whether a statute supplies a different period or specialized procedure before selecting twenty days.

Texas appellate Rule 26.1(b), 28.1(a)–(b)

How does this appellate period work?

Obtain the signed judgment or interlocutory order and its signing date.
Exclude the actual triggering event and count every intermediate calendar day under Rule 4.1(a). Do not import the Civil Rules’ short-period exclusion into appellate computation. A signing, rendition, filing or ruling date must be established from its own actual record. Count twenty days from the applicable signing. Posttrial motion filing does not restart this accelerated clock.
Apply Rule 4.1 and establish the actual clerk calendar.
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.

Texas appellate Rule 4.1

What does an independently derived example show?

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. An appealable accelerated civil order is signed and no different statutory period applies. The established input date is August 3, 2027. No additional closure, order, bankruptcy suspension or unmodeled timetable restart applies.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Established event	Actual signing of the judgment or order in the applicable twenty-day accelerated branch	August 3, 2027
Applicable period	Twenty calendar days after signing under Rule 26.1(b)	Monday, August 23, 2027

Example resultMonday, August 23, 2027

Fictitious facts with the stated appeal classification and actual event independently established. No additional closure, order, disputed eligibility or unmodeled restart is assumed.

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Which appeal conditions and court directions matter?

Acceleration must be established: Rule 28.1(a) identifies statutorily allowed interlocutory appeals, quo warranto, statutory acceleration or expedition and appeals legally required within less than thirty days. A calculation does not establish appealability.
A statute can supply different perfection: Rule 28.1(b) begins with its statutory exception. The twenty-day preset does not override a different governing statutory timetable.
Posttrial filings do not extend perfection: New-trial motions, other posttrial motions and findings requests do not extend the accelerated perfection time under Rule 28.1(b).
The notice identifies acceleration: Rule 25.1(d)(6) requires accelerated identification and its specified specialized-case information when applicable.
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.

Texas appellate Rule 26.1(b), 28.1(a)–(b)

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.

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