What if I can't make the date on the jury summons?

What if I can't make the date on the jury summons?

If there's a reason you can't appear on the date that's on the summons, you have surgery scheduled or your mother has surgery scheduled, and it better be a darn good reason, you should call the clerk of courts and ask if you need to submit a letter, explain that you want to serve, you want to serve on a jury but you can't do it right then but you'd be happy to serve at another time, they may ask you to come in, they may ask you to sign an affidavit, but usually if you have a really good reason they will let you out of jury service. If you get the summons, on the summons itself should be a phone number or an address and the room of the court house or something that will tell you usually the name of a person to call and their phone number or where to write and to whom if for any reason you cannot serve.