South Carolina Department of Social Services v. McKinley

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

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Jun 7, 2016

2016-UP-283 (S.C. Ct. App. Jun. 7, 2016)

Opinion

2016-UP-283

06-07-2016

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Linda McKinley, Conan Pannell, John Cunningham, and Paul D. Stradling, Defendants, Of whom Linda McKinley is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2015-002386

William E. Phillips, of Anderson, for Appellant. Kaye Davis, of the 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UNPUBLISHED OPINION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 May 25, 2016

Appeal From Anderson County David E. Phillips, Family Court Judge

William E. Phillips, of Anderson, for Appellant.

Kaye Davis, of the 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:

Linda McKinley 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 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 that warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve McKinley's counsel.

AFFIRMED.^{[ 1}

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

SHORT and THOMAS, JJ., and CURETON, A.J., concur