Best Practices when replacing 2003 server R2 with a new domainname and server 2012 r2 on same lan network

I have a small office (10 computers with five users) that have a Windows 2003 server that has a corrupted AD. Their 2003 server R2 is essentially a file server and provides authentication. They purchased a new Dell 2012 R2 server.
It seems easier to me to just create a new domain (using their public domain name).
But I need as little office downtime. as possible . Therefore I would like to promote this server to its new domain on the same lan as the current domain server. I plan to manually replicate the users and folder permissions. Once done, I plan to
remove the old server from the network and join the office computers to the new domain.
They also they are also running a legacy application that will require some tweaking by another tech. I have been hoping to prep the new domain prior to new legacy tech arriving. That is why I would like both domain to co-exist temporarily. I have read
that the major issues involved in this kind of temporary configuration will then be related to setting up dns. They are using the firewall to provide dhcp.
Are there any best practices documents for this situation?
Or is there a better or simpler strategy?
Gary Metz

I followed below two links. I think it should be the same even though the links are 2008 R2 migration steps.
http://kpytko.pl/active-directory-domain-services/adding-first-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller-within-windows-2003-network/
http://blog.zwiegnet.com/windows-server/migrate-server-2003-to-2008r2-active-directory-and-fsmo-roles/
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