Opinion
2018-UP-239
06-06-2018
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Ivoree Malcom, Thomas Bell, Edmond Grisham, and John Doe, Defendants, Of whom Thomas Bell is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2017-002135
Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant. Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent. John Marshall Swails, Jr., of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
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 May 9, 2018
Appeal From Anderson County Tommy B. Edwards, Family Court Judge
Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant.
Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent.
John Marshall Swails, Jr., of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM
Thomas Bell appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2017). 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. Thus, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Bell's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
SHORT, THOMAS, and HILL, JJ., concur.