How to get excused from jury duty in Cobb County, Georgia

Superior Court jury office, Cobb County — by email, 10 September 2026. “Jurors aged 70 & Older can request to be excused based on their age.”

Ten counties have now been asked whether age alone is enough, and this is only the second clean yes. Most attach something: a medical condition, a deadline, a form that only works before the summons arrives, or a higher age.

Two things to hold alongside it. The office also says excusals last one year, so this is not a permanent removal from the pool. And Georgia counties do not agree with each other on this — another county in this state accepts an age affidavit only if it is filed before a summons is issued. Ask your own county; do not carry this answer across the state line or even across the county line.

Superior Court jury office, Cobb County — by email, 10 September 2026. “Jurors can have no more than 2 postponements. The length of a postponement is about 8 weeks. The juror will receive an automated email and/or text message. The juror can also check the status of their postponement online or by contacting our office.”

This is the path that actually works in Cobb, and it is worth understanding why. The county does not excuse for financial hardship — but asked what happens when someone raises it, the office answered that the juror writes the request and “the court will grant a postponement.” The ask is granted; the question is only whether moving the date solves your problem.

Two, at about eight weeks each. That is roughly four months of movement in total, and then no more. If your situation will outlast that, spending both now leaves nothing later.

This page previously said Cobb granted one postponement of 8 to 10 weeks. That came from a telephone call in August and the office has corrected it in writing.

Medical Affidavit, O.C.G.A. § 15-12-1.1 — Superior Court of Cobb County, form dated 28 May 2025. This page has corrected itself twice on this point, and the second correction partly restores the first answer. A telephone call to the jury office in August produced the answer that the affidavit had been retired, that the county wanted a practitioner’s letter instead, and that no notary was required. Two of those three were true. The letter route is real and it genuinely needs no notary — confirmed again on 11 September 2026. What the August call got wrong was that the form had been retired: it had not. On 10 September 2026 the office answered in writing and attached the form: “The court provides an affidavit for medical excusals. I attached it in this email. It can be downloaded off our website.” The form is dated May 2025 and carries, in capitals, NOTARY PUBLIC (REQUIRED), with the notary’s signature to “include seal.”

What the form actually asks. It is completed by your physician or medical provider, and it states that you are being treated for medical conditions with physical or cognitive limitations. Then one choice, two boxes:

“___ should NOT be required to report for jury duty at this time.”
“___ are permanent and should NOT be required to report for jury duty now or in the future.”

That is the whole of it, plus your name, phone, email and summons date, your provider’s printed name and signature, and the notary block. There is nowhere on this form for you to explain anything, which is why there is nothing here for us to sell you.

The alternative, and the question it leaves open. The office says: “If the juror wants to submit an official letter from their doctor, the letter must be on an official letterhead, written, and signed by the doctor.” Three requirements, and notarization is not among them — but the office did not say a letter avoids the notary, and we are not going to infer it, because inferring exactly that sort of thing is what put the error above on this page. If the notary trip is the obstacle, ask the office directly on (770) 528-1757, option 1.

One more line from the form, easy to miss and worth having: “if you need to postpone your jury service for a medical reason, please contact Jury Administration directly. You will be advised at that time if a verification is necessary.” A medical postponement may need no paperwork at all.

Superior Court jury office, Cobb County — by email, 10 September 2026. “The juror writes the request, and the court will grant a postponement. The juror can also mention it in person when checking in for service. However, the court does not excuse jurors for financial hardship.”

That last sentence is why there is no document for sale on this page. This site previously offered a $19.97 hardship letter for Cobb, framed around Georgia’s general good-cause standard. The county has now said plainly that it does not excuse on this ground, and that what it does instead — grant a postponement — it grants on the asking. A letter cannot improve on an outcome that is already automatic, and it cannot obtain one that is not on offer.

What is left worth knowing is the arithmetic. Two postponements, about eight weeks each. If eight or sixteen weeks makes the difference, ask and you will get it. If it does not, the honest answer is that Cobb has no route for you before the day, and the place to say so is in person at check-in.