Opinion
2015-UP-531
11-19-2015
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Heather Nicole Price and Michael Anthony Sims, Jr., Defendants, Of whom Michael Anthony Sims, Jr. is the Appellant, In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2015-000768
R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Law Office of R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Greenville, for Appellant. Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC, of Mauldin; and Jonathan Ashley Neal, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, both for Respondent. Don Stevenson, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted October 22, 2015
Appeal From Greenville County Joseph C. Smithdeal, Family Court Judge
R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Law Office of R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Greenville, for Appellant.
Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC, of Mauldin; and Jonathan Ashley Neal, of South Carolina
Department of Social Services, of Greenville, both for Respondent.
Don Stevenson, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM:
Michael Anthony Sims Jr. appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his two 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 Sims's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
FEW, C. J, and KONDUROS and LOCKEMY, JJ, concur