How quickly can an emergency motion for protection be scheduled in Ontario family court?

There's no fixed or guaranteed timeline — how quickly a genuinely urgent motion gets in front of a judge depends on the specific courthouse, its available judicial resources, and how the urgency is presented, so it varies from case to case rather than following a set schedule. What Ontario family courts do have is a recognized process for urgent matters: where there's a real risk to safety, a party can ask the court to treat the motion as urgent, sometimes without notice to the other side, so it can be brought on faster than an ordinary motion would be.

Courts reserve this urgent process for situations that genuinely can't wait for the normal motion timetable, and being vague or overstating urgency can backfire, so the supporting material needs to clearly show why immediate court intervention is necessary. Anyone in a genuine safety emergency should get legal advice immediately about how to frame the request rather than assuming the court will recognize the urgency on its own.