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===Preparing the Appeal Book and transcripts=== | ===Preparing the Appeal Book and transcripts=== | ||
This is where things start to get expensive. Within | This is where things start to get expensive. Within 60 days of filing your Notice of Appeal, you must obtain a transcript of the testimony in the court appealed from, file the transcript with the court, and serve a copy on the respondent. | ||
The transcript you | The transcript you must obtain is a transcript of all the oral evidence given at trial. You <span class="noglossary">will</span> have to <span class="noglossary">contact</span> a court reporting company (they're in the Yellow Pages) and make arrangements for them to transcribe the tapes that were made of the court proceedings. | ||
Also within 60 days after bringing an appeal, you must prepare an Appeal Record in Form 9 of the Court of Appeal forms, file four copies with the court, and serve a copy on the respondent. | |||
Within 30 days after filing the Appeal Record, you must prepare an Appeal Book in Form 12, and file and serve it on the respondent. The Appeal Book contains: | |||
#the pleadings that were filed in the original court proceeding (the Notice of Family Claim, the Response to Family Claim, and the Counterclaim) plus all of the interim orders that may have been made in that proceeding, | #the pleadings that were filed in the original court proceeding (the Notice of Family Claim, the Response to Family Claim, and the Counterclaim) plus all of the interim orders that may have been made in that proceeding, | ||
#the documentary exhibits that were entered at the trial, and | #the documentary exhibits that were entered at the trial, and | ||