South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Allen

Full title: South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Angie Allen…

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Jan 20, 2016

2016-UP-044 (S.C. Ct. App. Jan. 20, 2016)

Opinion

2016-UP-044

01-20-2016

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Angie Allen, Ronnie Walden, John Doe and John Roe, Defendants, Of whom Angie Allen is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2015-001572

Benjamin Reynolds Elliott, of Stevens B. Elliott, Attorney At Law, of Columbia, for Appellant. Amanda Frances Whittle, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Columbia, for Respondent. Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants & Massey, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted December 22, 2015

Appeal From Aiken County Randall E. McGee, Family Court Judge

Benjamin Reynolds Elliott, of Stevens B. Elliott, Attorney At Law, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Amanda Frances Whittle, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants & Massey, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

Angie Allen appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2015). 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. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Allen's counsel.

AFFIRMED.¹

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

SHORT, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ;, concur.