How to get excused from jury duty in Maricopa County, Arizona
The excusal routes Maricopa County, Arizona actually recognizes — what each one needs, who decides, and where it goes.
Respond within 10 days, and understand the postponement before you reach for anything else. Maricopa gives you one postponement, to a date of your choosing within 90 days, if you ask at least 10 days before your date — and then Arizona law closes the door: A.R.S. § 21-336 bars a second postponement “unless it is an extreme emergency that was not anticipated when the first postponement was granted.” So the first one is not free in the way it looks. Reporting runs on group numbers: you call after 5 p.m. the business day before and listen for yours, and many people are never called at all. Medical has its own court form, signed by an Arizona-licensed physician or nurse practitioner.
Your routes in Maricopa County, Arizona
Age exemptionUsually automatic
Arizona recognizes standard age-based accommodations — confirm your specific eligibility.
See the full detail →Respond to the summons. Within 10 days.Included — within 10 days
Everything starts with the online questionnaire, and the summons gives you ten days. The postponement and excuse options both live inside it.
Maricopa County jury summons — read directly, 9 September 2026. “Respond to this notice by completing the questionnaire… within 10 days.” The court then tells you that “you will find an option to request to be excused from jury service when responding to your summons”, and the same response carries the postponement option. This one step is where every other route on this page begins. Qualification itself is six things: 18 or over, a US citizen, a resident of Maricopa County, adequately proficient in English, never convicted of a felony unless civil rights have been restored, and no disqualifying mental condition.
See the full detail →PostponementIncluded — one, and the law bars a second
One postponement, to a date you pick within 90 days, if you ask at least 10 days before. Arizona law then bars a second unless there is an extreme emergency nobody could have anticipated.
Superior Court in Maricopa County, with A.R.S. § 21-336. The court is unusually generous at the first ask and unusually strict at the second. “Jurors may request a first-time postponement no less than 10 days prior to the summonsed date… select a new date of their choice, with some limitations, as long as the new date is within 90 days.” Then: “Arizona law (A.R.S. 21-336) does not allow a second postponement unless it is an extreme emergency that was not anticipated when the first postponement was granted.” Treat the first postponement as the only one you will get, and pick a date you can actually keep.
See the full detail →Excusal before your service dateIncluded — available in advance, but what it needs depends on why
The office confirms a juror may ask to be excused entirely before the scheduled date. What has to be sent depends on the reason, and the court does not publish a list.
Jury Department, Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County — by email, 10 September 2026. Asked whether, besides postponing, there is a way to be excused entirely and what the court needs to see, the office answered: “Yes. Jurors may request to be excused prior to their scheduled service date. The documentation or information required will depend on the reason for the request.”
That is a real answer, and it is deliberately not dressed up as more than it is. An excusal is available in advance on any ground; what each ground needs is decided case by case and is not published anywhere.
So there is nothing here for us to sell you, and there could not be: a document whose requirements we cannot state is not a document we can write. One telephone call to (602) 506-5879, naming your reason, gets you the list that applies to you.
See the full detail →That is a real answer, and it is deliberately not dressed up as more than it is. An excusal is available in advance on any ground; what each ground needs is decided case by case and is not published anywhere.
So there is nothing here for us to sell you, and there could not be: a document whose requirements we cannot state is not a document we can write. One telephone call to (602) 506-5879, naming your reason, gets you the list that applies to you.
Financial hardshipIncluded — raise it in advance, or with the judge on the day
You may raise it before your service date or with the judge on the day — the office confirmed both. What each reason requires is not published. The excuse option is inside the online summons response. Maricopa does not publish what it asks for or what it accepts — so we say so rather than sell you a letter it may never read.
A.R.S. § 21-202, and what Maricopa does not publish. Arizona’s excusal grounds sit in A.R.S. § 21-202, and Maricopa’s own page confirms only that “you will find an option to request to be excused from jury service when responding to your summons.” It publishes nothing about what that option asks, what evidence it wants, or how it is decided.
We previously told people that Maricopa would not take an excuse online and that a letter had to be mailed. That was wrong — the court says the excuse option is in the online response — and it is why there is no letter for sale here. We do not sell a document into a route we cannot evidence.
See the full detail →We previously told people that Maricopa would not take an excuse online and that a letter had to be mailed. That was wrong — the court says the excuse option is in the online response — and it is why there is no letter for sale here. We do not sell a document into a route we cannot evidence.
Medical or mental conditionIncluded — the court’s own form
Maricopa has its own form under A.R.S. § 21-202. An Arizona-licensed physician or registered nurse practitioner completes and signs it — or, if you have neither, a professional caregiver the court accepts.
Request for Medical Excuse from Jury Service, A.R.S. § 21-202 — rev. 1 July 2024. “Arizona law requires a written statement from a physician or registered nurse practitioner (‘RNP’) licensed by the state of Arizona.” There is nothing here for us to write, so this path costs nothing further. Three details on the form are worth knowing before the appointment: it asks how long the symptoms have occurred, when the person will be able to serve, and whether they are employed, unemployed or retired — none of which a standard sick note answers. And the fallback matters: if you have no physician or RNP, a professional caregiver may sign instead, subject to the court accepting them.
See the full detail →Contact the court
Jury Department, Superior Court in Maricopa County — 175 W Madison St., Phoenix AZ 85003Jury line: (602) 506-5879
Fax (602) 506-6078. Email [email protected]. The court asks for your name and juror ID number on all correspondence. Reporting instructions are a different number: (602) 506-8000 after 5 p.m. the business day before your date. Spanish: (602) 506-5879, option 2.
Fax (602) 506-6078. Email [email protected]. The court asks for your name and juror ID number on all correspondence. Reporting instructions are a different number: (602) 506-8000 after 5 p.m. the business day before your date. Spanish: (602) 506-5879, option 2.
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