Deadline intelligence

Deadline tracking that keeps you ahead of every court date.

CCP § 1005 deadlines calculated automatically, with county-specific court holidays, local rules, and service method adjustments.

Example: motion hearing on July 15, 2026

Santa Clara County

Motion filing deadline16 court days before hearing

June 22, 2026

Service deadline+5 calendar days for mail service

June 17, 2026

Opposition deadline9 court days before hearing

July 1, 2026

Reply deadline5 court days before hearing

July 8, 2026

The 16-9-5 rule

CCP § 1005 deadlines, done right.

Motion filing, service, and opposition deadlines calculated in court days, excluding weekends and county court holidays.

County-specific

Not all California counties are the same.

Statewide judicial holidays apply everywhere. Local rules, court holidays and filing procedures do not, so Cedent loads them county by county rather than assuming.

Alameda

2 courthouses · 4 local rules

Santa Clara

1 courthouse · 5 local rules

San Francisco

1 courthouse · 4 local rules

Practicing elsewhere in California? Deadlines still calculate on the statewide judicial holiday calendar. Bring your county to the call and we will tell you honestly where it sits in the queue.

Courthouse directory

It knows the courthouse, not just the county.

Alameda's courthouses landed first, with Santa Clara and San Francisco alongside them. More are being added.

Clerk hours and departments

Which department hears family law, when the clerk's window is open, and where the courthouse actually is. Cedent uses it when it answers a question about filing and when it fills the court information on a form.

Filing procedures and current fees

How each courthouse takes a filing and what it costs, kept alongside the statewide fee schedule so a first appearance fee is not a guess.

Every record cites its source

Each courthouse entry links to the court's own page and carries the date a person at Cedent checked it. When something looks stale, you can see exactly how old it is.

Calendar sync

Deadlines go straight to your calendar.

Once the dates are calculated they belong on the calendar you already live in, and what you put on that calendar belongs back in the matter.

Two-way Outlook sync

Connect your Outlook calendar and Cedent's deadlines appear on it automatically. Hearings and appointments you add in Outlook flow back into Cedent, where you link them to the right matter.

Confirm in a batch, not one at a time

When Cedent is not certain which matter an event belongs to, it collects those and lets you confirm them together instead of interrupting you for each one.

Confidential matters stay off the calendar

You control what gets shared out to your calendar, and colleagues only see what they are already permitted to see inside Cedent.

Reminders before each date

10 days, 5 days, and 2 days ahead by default, and you can set your own cascade per attorney.

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