South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Christopher

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

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Jul 25, 2016

2016-UP-388 (S.C. Ct. App. Jul. 25, 2016)

Opinion

2016-UP-388

07-25-2016

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Nikkita Christopher, Jose Gonzalez, Christian Javier Martinez, Victor Matheis Del'Angel, and Santiago Garcia Perez, Defendants, Of whom Nikkita Christopher is the Appellant.In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2016-000137

Richard Whitney Allen, of The Law Offices of Richard W. Allen, L.L.C., of Laurens, for Appellant. Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC, of Mauldin, for Respondent. Jamia Diann Foster, of Albert V. Smith, PA, of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted July 21, 2016

Appeal From Spartanburg County James F. Fraley, Jr., Family Court Judge

Richard Whitney Allen, of The Law Offices of Richard W. Allen, L.L.C., of Laurens, for Appellant.

Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC, of Mauldin, for Respondent.

Jamia Diann Foster, of Albert V. Smith, PA, of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

Nikkita Christopher appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2015). 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 Christopher's counsel.

AFFIRMED. ¹

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

HUFF, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.