Opinion
2024-UP-290 Appellate Case 2024-000209
07-29-2024
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Kelsey Lanza, Adam Gartland, and Gerardo Lanza Martinez, Defendants, Of whom Kelsey Lanza is the Appellant. In the interests of minors under the age of eighteen.
Matthew P. Head, of Head Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant. Michael Stephen Gambrell, of Michael S. Gambrell, LLC, as Guardian ad Litem for Appellant. Richard Whitney Allen, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent. Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem for the minor children.
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, 2024
Appeal From Greenville County Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge
Matthew P. Head, of Head Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Michael Stephen Gambrell, of Michael S. Gambrell, LLC, as Guardian ad Litem for Appellant.
Richard Whitney Allen, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.
Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem for the minor children.
PER CURIAM
Kelsey Lanza appeals the family court's removal order finding she physically neglected her minor children and granting custody to the children's fathers. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-1660(E) (2010) (setting forth findings a family court must make when removing a child from the custody of a parent). 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 Lanza's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
GEATHERS, HEWITT, and VINSON, JJ., concur.