When must Texas requests for admissions be served?

Establish the actual discovery endpoint and any different request schedule.

Identify each matter for admission and state it separately.

For document genuineness requests, establish that the documents are served with the request or otherwise available for inspection and copying.

1. Establish the actual discovery endpoint and any different request schedule.
2. Rule 198.1 uses thirty days before discovery ends for request service. Rule 198.2(a) separately measures the ordinary response after service, including its Family Code early-service branch. Do not treat the service limit as a deemed-admissions date.
3. Read any signed order and establish the actual required act, recipients and completion method.
4. Check closed days without silently shortening the required interval.

These periods exceed five days, so Rule 4’s exclusion of intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays for short periods does not apply. Do not move a latest date forward toward trial, a hearing or discovery closure merely because the nominal date is closed. That can leave less than the required lead time. Check Rule 4, the controlling order and actual court calendar. This source guide applies no automatic backward closed-day adjustment and supplies no computed last date.

Complete actual service under the applicable rule. Rule 21a distinguishes permitted service methods from filing. Electronic service completes on transmission to the serving party’s electronic filing service provider. Fax received after 5 p.m. in the recipient’s time zone is deemed served the next day. The three-day qualifying-mail addition in Rule 21a(c) concerns a prescribed period after service, not an automatic addition to a backward trial or discovery limit. Preserve recipients, method and completion evidence.

The backward preset does not establish the applicable discovery endpoint, proper requests and document access or a resolved closed-day last date. No service or deemed-admissions date is calculated by this guide.

Each matter stated separately

Rule 198.1 requires each matter requested for admission to be separately stated. A timing calculation does not establish that the actual set meets that requirement.

Documents and scope

Genuineness requests concern documents served with the request or otherwise made available for inspection and copying. The requested matters must be within the scope of discovery.

Response clock and automatic admission

Rule 198.2 ordinarily requires a written response thirty days after service, with its Family Code early-service fifty-day branch. An untimely response is considered admitted without a court order under (c).

Withdrawal is not automatic

Rule 198.3 requires good cause and the stated findings about undue prejudice to relying parties and presentation of the merits before the court permits withdrawal or amendment.

• This guide does not establish the actual discovery endpoint, hearing or trial setting, service validity, court calendar or terms of an order.
• A timing explanation does not establish discovery compliance or permission to take the requested action.

• Establish the actual discovery endpoint and any different request schedule.
• Identify each matter for admission and state it separately.
• For document genuineness requests, establish that the documents are served with the request or otherwise available for inspection and copying.
• Rule 198.1 requires each matter requested for admission to be separately stated. A timing calculation does not establish that the actual set meets that requirement.
• Genuineness requests concern documents served with the request or otherwise made available for inspection and copying. The requested matters must be within the scope of discovery.
• Rule 198.2 ordinarily requires a written response thirty days after service, with its Family Code early-service fifty-day branch. An untimely response is considered admitted without a court order under (c).
• Rule 198.3 requires good cause and the stated findings about undue prejudice to relying parties and presentation of the merits before the court permits withdrawal or amendment.
• Properly serve the actual written requests under Rule 21a and serve discovery material on all parties of record under Rule 191.5. Preserve the separately stated requests and required document access. Rule 191.4 ordinarily does not require filing this party discovery request unless an exception applies. Proper service and later response timing require separate evidence.