Short answer. No. A motion for extension to file an answer is a non-litigious motion — one the court may act on without prejudicing the adverse party's rights. Non-litigious motions are not set for hearing and must instead be resolved by the court within five calendar days of receipt.
What the law says
Motions which the court may act upon without prejudicing the rights of adverse parties are non-litigious motions. These motions include: a) Motion for the issuance of an alias summons; b) Motion for extension to file answer; c) Motion for postponement; d) Motion for the issuance of a writ of execution; e) Motion for the issuance of an alias writ of execution; f) Motion for the issuance of a writ of possession; g) Motion for the issuance of an order directing the sheriff to execute the final certificate of sale; and h) Other similar motions. These motions shall not be set for hearing and shall be resolved by the court within five calendar days from receipt thereof.
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What makes a motion 'non-litigious'
The defining feature of a non-litigious motion is simply that the court can act on it without prejudicing the rights of the adverse party in any meaningful way. Because acting on such motions does not realistically risk unfair harm to the other side of the case, the Rules do not require the added procedural step of a formal hearing before the court goes ahead and rules on them.
The enumerated examples
The rule lists out several specific examples of this category: motions for the issuance of an alias summons, for extension to file an answer, for postponement, for a writ of execution, for an alias writ of execution, for a writ of possession, and for an order directing the sheriff to execute the final certificate of sale, along with other similar motions that reasonably fall into that same general category.
No hearing, but a fixed resolution deadline
Because these particular motions are not set for hearing, the court does not schedule any formal argument on them the way it might for a genuinely contested motion involving real dispute. Instead, the rule imposes a firm, fixed turnaround time: the court must resolve non-litigious motions within five calendar days from the date of their receipt. That five-day clock runs regardless of how many non-litigious motions are pending or how busy the court's docket happens to be, giving litigants a predictable timeline for these routine requests that a hearing-based process would not.
Why an extension-to-answer motion fits this category
A motion for extension to file an answer is specifically included in this list because granting it typically does not prejudice the adverse party's substantive rights in any real way — it simply adjusts a procedural deadline slightly. That is precisely the kind of low-risk, routine request the non-litigious category, and its streamlined five-day, no-hearing resolution process, is designed to handle efficiently and without unnecessary delay.