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===Preparing the Appeal Record, Appeal Book and transcripts===
Within 30 days after filing the Appeal Record, you must prepare an Appeal Book in Form 12, file it with the court, and serve a copy 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 . If any of them were amended, use the interim orders that may have been made in that proceeding,last amended version. #A copy of the documentary exhibits that were entered at the trialorder under appeal, if available, or, and#copies if no copy of the entered order you are appealing fromis available, together a blank page with an envelope attached in which the copy of the entered order can be inserted once available. # A copy of the trial judge's reasons for judgment. # A copy of the Notice of Appeal.
You must prove to Within 30 days after filing the registrar that Appeal Record, you have taken whatever steps are necessary to obtain these materials and must prepare your an Appeal Bookin Form 12, file it with the court, and serve a copy on the respondent. When preparing your The Appeal Book, you must pay close attention to contains the rules and documentary exhibits that were entered at the form provided in trail that are relevant to the Court of Appeal Rulesappeal. There are a couple For example, if the appeal is only about parenting time, you would not need to include all of companies the financial documents that <span class="noglossary">will</span> prepare your Appeal Book for you; they are listed were put in evidence at trial, just the Yellow Pagesdocuments that relate to parenting time.
You <span class="noglossary">will</span> need a total of six copies of each of these documents — the transcriptWhen preparing your Appeal Book, you must pay close attention to the Appeal Record, rules and the form provided in the Court of Appeal Rules. There are a couple of companies that will prepare your Appeal Book — since the court gets four, for you'll need one, and ; they are listed in the respondent gets one as wellYellow Pages.
→Preparing the Appeal Book and transcripts
After the respondent has been served with your Notice of Appeal, they <span class="noglossary">will</span> have 10 days to file a Notice of Appearance and serve it on you, acknowledging your appeal. At this point, the respondent may choose to serve a Notice of Cross Appeal against you. This is the respondent's own separate appeal from the trial decision.
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 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 it with the court, and serve a copy on the respondent.The Appeal Record must contain:
You will need a total of six copies of each of these documents - the transcript, the Appeal Record, and the Appeal Book - since the court gets four, you'll need one, and the respondent gets one as well. Since transcripts can often run to several hundred pages, as can Appeal Books, the cost of this step can be quite high. After you've filed your Appeal Book together and received the transcripts, you must deliver a copy to the respondent.
===Settling the Appeal Book and transcripts===