Georgia Court Rules
Ga. Ct. App. R. 12 (2026)
Terms of Court
✓ current as of July 2026
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The Court has three terms of court per year. Cases are docketed to a term as required by the Constitution of the State of Georgia and as otherwise required by law. The docket will specify the specific term to which a case is docketed. Cases docketed to a specific term must be decided before the expiration of the following term.
The Court’s terms (including any motion for reconsideration period) are as follows:
(1) the December term begins the first Monday in December and ends March 31 the following year;
(2) the April term begins the first Monday in April and ends July 17;
(3) the August term begins the first Monday in August and ends November 18.