Beauchamp v. Lusch

¶1Susan Lusch, n.k.a. Susan Beauchamp (“Mother”), appeals pro se that portion of the trial court’s judgment holding her in contempt and fining her $10,000 for altering videotapes of her daughter that the dissolution decree required her to turn over to Father for copying. On appeal Mother asserts two points of error, both of which challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the award either as civil or criminal contempt.1 Mother, however, failed to file a transcript of the contempt hearing. Without a transcript, it is impossible to evaluate the *521sufficiency of the evidence to support the award, and in the absence of such a record the appellate court has nothing to decide. Page v. Associated Couriers, Inc., 868 S.W.2d 138, 140 (Mo.App.1993). Accordingly, we have no choice but to dismiss the appeal.