S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Blair

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

Court: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

Date published: Feb 11, 2021

Appellate Case No. 2020-000685 (S.C. Ct. App. Feb. 11, 2021)

Opinion

2021-UP-046 Appellate 2020-000685

02-11-2021

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Mia Elizabeth Hartzog Blair and Markevious Deondra Blair, Defendants, and Chris and Katie Reid, Intervenors/Respondents, Of whom Mia Elizabeth Hartzog Blair is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant. James Fletcher Thompson, of James Fletcher Thompson, LLC, of Spartanburg, and Larry Dale Dove, of Dove Law Group, LLC, of Rock Hill, both for Respondents Chris and Katie Reid. Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services. Tiffany J. Lumpkin, of Richland County CASA, of Columbia, 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 February 8, 2021

Appeal From Richland County Michael S. Holt, Family Court Judge

Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.

James Fletcher Thompson, of James Fletcher Thompson, LLC, of Spartanburg, and Larry Dale Dove, of Dove Law Group, LLC, of Rock Hill, both for Respondents Chris and Katie Reid.

Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services.

Tiffany J. Lumpkin, of Richland County CASA, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM:

Mia Elizabeth Hartzog Blair appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2020). 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 Blair's counsel.

AFFIRMED. ¹

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

KONDUROS, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.