South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Welch

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

Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Date published: Mar 4, 2016

2016-UP-130 (S.C. Ct. App. Mar. 4, 2016)

Opinion

2016-UP-130

03-04-2016

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Tiffany Lynn O'Neil Welch and Justin Stephen Lennon, Sr., Defendants, Of whom Tiffany Lynn O'Neil Welch is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2015-002210

Melanie Carol Nicholson, of Wright, Worley, Pope, Ekster & Moss, PLLC, of North Myrtle Beach, for Appellant. Charles Richard Rhodes, Jr., of Charles R. Rhodes, Jr., PC, of Conway, for Respondent. Ian Andrew Taylor, of Taylor Law Office, of Pawleys Island, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted February 8, 2016

Appeal From Horry County William J. Wylie, Jr., Family Court Judge

Melanie Carol Nicholson, of Wright, Worley, Pope, Ekster & Moss, PLLC, of North Myrtle Beach, for Appellant.

Charles Richard Rhodes, Jr., of Charles R. Rhodes, Jr., PC, of Conway, for Respondent.

Ian Andrew Taylor, of Taylor Law Office, of Pawleys Island, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM

Tiffany Lynn O'Neil Welch 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 Welch's counsel.

AFFIRMED.¹

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

FEW, C.J., and SHORT and THOMAS, JJ., concur.