When is an ordinary Texas motion to modify, correct or reform judgment due?

Obtain the signed judgment and its actual signing record.

Identify the precise respects in which the requested motion would modify, correct or reform it.

Distinguish substantive Rule 329b(g) relief from Rule 316 record correction and review any Rule 306a claim.

1. Obtain the signed judgment and its actual signing record.
2. Confirm the stated branch and actual triggering record.
3. Exclude the event and count 30 calendar days.
4. Check the final day and complete the specific required act. A court ruling, operation-of-law event and party filing are distinct.

Rule 4 excludes the triggering event and counts intermediate calendar days for these periods longer than five days. A final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday moves to the next day that is not one of those days. Establish the actual legal holidays, court calendar and any additional closure. Government Code 662.021 identifies the checked Labor Day holiday in the examples; an ordinary office schedule alone does not establish every legally eligible expiry day.

Use actual judgment signing. This ordinary preset does not calculate a Rule 316 clerical correction or a proven later Rule 306a start.

Fictitious example

Fictitious ordinary facts. Signing of the judgment to be modified, corrected or reformed occurred August 2, 2027. The stated ordinary branch applies without a different start, exception, additional closure or controlling order.

Fictitious facts and the stated ordinary branch only. Actual orders, case facts and legal holidays require separate checking. The closed-day example assumes the next identified day is otherwise eligible.

Late notice requires proof

Under Rule 306a(4), an adversely affected party or attorney who had neither the prescribed notice nor actual knowledge within twenty days may establish a later start from the first notice or knowledge. No period starts more than ninety days after signing. Rule 306a(5) requires sworn motion, notice and proof in the trial court. This calculator uses ordinary signing and does not determine that relief.

Rule 316 is separate

Rule 329b(g) expressly distinguishes a motion to correct the judgment record under Rule 316. A clerical-correction procedure is not automatically governed by this thirty-day substantive-motion preset.

Actual written motion content

Rule 329b(g) requires writing, the party’s or attorney’s signature and specified respects for the requested modification, correction or reformation.

Determination and other motions

The motion follows Rule 329b’s filing and determination schedule and extends plenary power and appeal time in the stated manner. Overruling it does not preclude a new-trial motion, or vice versa, but does not create an unlimited fresh filing period.

• This preset does not establish jurisdiction, preservation, legal sufficiency, proof of a different start or the actual local calendar.
• The result remains provisional until the required facts, rule and order are checked.

• Obtain the signed judgment and its actual signing record.
• Identify the precise respects in which the requested motion would modify, correct or reform it.
• Distinguish substantive Rule 329b(g) relief from Rule 316 record correction and review any Rule 306a claim.
• Under Rule 306a(4), an adversely affected party or attorney who had neither the prescribed notice nor actual knowledge within twenty days may establish a later start from the first notice or knowledge. No period starts more than ninety days after signing. Rule 306a(5) requires sworn motion, notice and proof in the trial court. This calculator uses ordinary signing and does not determine that relief.
• Rule 329b(g) expressly distinguishes a motion to correct the judgment record under Rule 316. A clerical-correction procedure is not automatically governed by this thirty-day substantive-motion preset.
• Rule 329b(g) requires writing, the party’s or attorney’s signature and specified respects for the requested modification, correction or reformation.
• The motion follows Rule 329b’s filing and determination schedule and extends plenary power and appeal time in the stated manner. Overruling it does not preclude a new-trial motion, or vice versa, but does not create an unlimited fresh filing period.
• Prepare the written motion, obtain the party’s or attorney’s signature and specify the respects in which the judgment should be modified, corrected or reformed under Rule 329b(g). File the actual required document with the clerk and complete the required service under Rule 21a. Rule 21(f)(5) ordinarily requires electronic filing before midnight in the court’s time zone; preserve transmission to the electronic filing service provider, actual receipt and service proof. Read any leave, specific time or technical-failure order. Filing does not establish a favorable ruling or independently verify the document’s legal sufficiency.