South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Chestnut

Full title: South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Billy Nelson…

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Jun 24, 2015

2015-UP-315 (S.C. Ct. App. Jun. 24, 2015)

Opinion

2015-UP-315

06-24-2015

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Billy Nelson Chestnut and Dorothy Kay McDougal Chestnut, Defendants, Of Whom Dorothy Kay McDougal Chestnut is the Appellant. and Amanda Ruth Smith and Corey Brandon Smith, Respondents, v. Dorothy Kay McDougal Chestnut, Billy Nelson Chestnut, and Baby Girl, a minor under the age of four (4) years, and South Carolina Department of Social Services, Defendants, Of whom Dorothy Kay McDougal Chestnut is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2014-002404

Chad A. Mitchell, of The Chad Alexander Mitchell Law Firm, LLC, of Laurens, for Appellant. Nancy H. Bailey, of Law Office of Nancy H. Bailey, of Florence, for Respondents Amanda Smith and Corey Smith. Laura Jo Bardsley Houck, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Laurens, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services. Elizabeth Dyal Medlin, of Medlin Law Firm, LLC, of Laurens, for Guardian ad Litem Sheila Putnam. Marcus Wesley Meetze, of Law Office of Marcus W. Meetze, LLC, of Simpsonville, for Guardian ad Litem Angela Young.

PER CURIAM

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted May 27, 2015

Appeal From Laurens County John M. Rucker, Family Court Judge

Chad A. Mitchell, of The Chad Alexander Mitchell Law Firm, LLC, of Laurens, for Appellant.

Nancy H. Bailey, of Law Office of Nancy H. Bailey, of Florence, for Respondents Amanda Smith and Corey Smith.

Laura Jo Bardsley Houck, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Laurens, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services.

Elizabeth Dyal Medlin, of Medlin Law Firm, LLC, of Laurens, for Guardian ad Litem Sheila Putnam.

Marcus Wesley Meetze, of Law Office of Marcus W. Meetze, LLC, of Simpsonville, for Guardian ad Litem Angela Young.

PER CURIAM

Dorothy Chestnut appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2014). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Chestnut's counsel.

AFFIRMED.^[1]

[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

SHORT, LOCKEMY, and McDONALD, JJ., concur.