Opinion
2017-UP-190
05-02-2017
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Joyce Marie Dempsey, John Eric Dempsey, Becky McCarty, and Billy McCarty, Defendants, Of whom John Eric Dempsey is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2016-001904
Earnest Deon O'Neil, of Columbia, for Appellant. Jordan Phillip Gibson, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for Respondent. Robin Page, of Law Office of Robin Page, LLC, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.
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Submitted April 20, 2017
Appeal From Lexington County Peter R. Nuessle, Family Court Judge
Earnest Deon O'Neil, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Jordan Phillip Gibson, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for Respondent.
Robin Page, of Law Office of Robin Page, LLC, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM:
John Eric Dempsey appeals the family court's final order removing his minor children pursuant to section 63-7-1660 of the South Carolina Code (2010 & Supp. 2016). 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. See also S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Frederick Downer, Sr., SC Sup. Ct. Order dated Feb. 2, 2005 ("[W]e expand the procedure set forth in Cauthen to situations . . . where an indigent person appeals from an order imposing other measures short of termination of parental rights, such as removal, based on child abuse and neglect."). Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Dempsey's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
GEATHERS, MCDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.