Arizona Deadlines
Sixty days — from service, not filing
The court cannot hold a trial or hearing or consider a dissolution decree until sixty days after service (or acceptance) of process. Filing does not start the clock; serving does — which is why the honest advice everywhere on this platform's Arizona pages is file and serve promptly.
Dissolution hearing/decree floor (Arizona)
Runtime-verified60 days · after the date of service of process (or acceptance of process) · keyed to A.R.S. § 25-329
The court cannot hold a trial or hearing or consider a decree submission until sixty days after service — a floor on the earliest finish, not a promise of one. County calendars control the real date.
Exceptions & caveats
- · The clock runs from SERVICE or acceptance — not from filing; file and serve early, and the floor runs while paperwork proceeds
- · Conciliation-court proceedings (§ 25-381.09) can add their own pause when invoked
The anchor that differs
Arizona's sixty-day floor runs FROM SERVICE (§ 25-329) — the opposite anchor from Texas's from-filing clock. On this platform the difference is enforced by the verbatim needle: each state's clock verifies against its own stored statute text at render time, or says so.
Response deadlines — stated honestly
Response deadlines in Arizona family cases run under the Arizona Rules of Family Law Procedure, which this platform has not yet ingested — no response-day count renders here until the rules' own text is stored and verified. The summons you were actually served states your deadline; read it.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Floors are not schedules. The sixtieth day is the earliest legal possibility — county calendars and any conciliation proceedings control the real date, and this page never guesses them. Legal information, not legal advice.