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===Preparing the Appeal Book and transcripts===
This is where things start to get expensive. Within 30 60 days of filing your Notice of Appeal, you must obtain a transcript of the testimony in the court appealed from, file written proof, satisfactory to the transcript with the court registrar, that you have ordered transcripts of and serve a copy on the trial and taken all necessary steps to order or prepare your Appeal Bookrespondent.
The transcript you <span class="noglossary">will</span> be ordering 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.
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 documentary exhibits that were entered at the trial, and