Opinion
2022-UP-020 Appellate Case 2021-000637
01-07-2022
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Patricia Annette Thompson and Brant Michael Brantley, Jr., Defendants Of whom Brant Michael Brantley, Jr. 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. Rebecca Rush Wray, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent. Robert A. Clark, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
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Submitted December 23, 2021
Appeal From Greenville County Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge
Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Rebecca Rush Wray, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.
Robert A. Clark, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
OPINION
PER CURIAM
Brant Michael Brantley, Jr. appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his four minor children. 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 Brantley's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
WILLIAMS, A. CJ, MCDONALD, J, and LOCKEMY, AJ, concur