Opinion
2024-UP-203 Appellate Case 2023-001340
05-29-2024
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Karen M. Gates and John F. Gibson, Jr., Defendants, Of whom Karen M. Gates is the Appellant. In the interests of minors under the age of eighteen.
John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant. Christopher Ryan Johnson, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Lexington, for Respondent. Brett Lamb Stevens, of University of South Carolina School of Law, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.
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Submitted May 20, 2024
Appeal From Lexington County Robert E. Newton, Family Court Judge
John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Christopher Ryan Johnson, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Lexington, for Respondent.
Brett Lamb Stevens, of University of South Carolina School of Law, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM
Karen M. Gates appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2023). 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.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
WILLIAMS, C.J, and KONDUROS and TURNER, JJ, concur