South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Bates

Full title: South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Angel Bates…

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Dec 1, 2015

2015-UP-551 (S.C. Ct. App. Dec. 1, 2015)

Opinion

2015-UP-551

12-01-2015

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Angel Bates and James Bates, Defendants, Of whom Angel Bates is the Appellant, In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Hugh Wingo Welborn, of Anderson, for Appellant. Kaye Davis, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent. Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM:

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted October 28, 2015

Appeal From Anderson County, No. 2015-000769 Karen F. Ballenger, Family Court Judge

Hugh Wingo Welborn, of Anderson, for Appellant.

Kaye Davis, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.

Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM:

Angel Bates appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2014). 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 Bates's counsel.

AFFIRMED. ¹

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

HUFF, WILLIAMS, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.