South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Conner

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

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Aug 10, 2018

2018-UP-354 (S.C. Ct. App. Aug. 10, 2018)

Opinion

2018-UP-354

08-10-2018

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Bethany F. Conner, Christopher Sible and Tonya Jacobs, Defendants, Of whom Bethany F. Conner is the Appellant, and Christopher Sible and Tonya Jacobs are Respondents. In the Interest of a minor under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2017-002298

Mary Patricia Crawford, of Walterboro, for Appellant. Anne Marie Ugarte, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Walterboro, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services. Lyn Howell Hensel, of Law Office of Lyn Howell Hensel, of Columbia, for Respondent Christopher Sible. Tonya Jacobs, of Walterboro, pro se. Gregory Michael Galvin, of Galvin Law Group, of Bluffton, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM:

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

Submitted July 26, 2018

Appeal From Colleton County Gerald C. Smoak, Jr., Family Court Judge

Mary Patricia Crawford, of Walterboro, for Appellant.

Anne Marie Ugarte, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Walterboro, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services.

Lyn Howell Hensel, of Law Office of Lyn Howell Hensel, of Columbia, for Respondent Christopher Sible.

Tonya Jacobs, of Walterboro, pro se.

Gregory Michael Galvin, of Galvin Law Group, of Bluffton, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM:

Bethany Conner appeals a judicial review order placing her minor daughter in the custody of Tonya Jacobs, granting Conner and Christopher Sible visitation at Jacobs's discretion, and allowing the Department of Social Services to close its case. Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of fact and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Conner's counsel.

AFFIRMED. ¹

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

SHORT, THOMAS, and HILL, JJ., concur.