SCDSS v. Lawrence

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.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

South Carolina Department of Social Services,
Respondent,

v.

Marilyn Lawrence and Matthew Calenda, Defendants,

Of whom Marilyn Lawrence is the Appellant.

In the interest of a minor under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000500

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Usha J. Bridges, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-026
Submitted December 16, 2015 – Filed January 14, 2016

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC,
of Mauldin, for Respondent.

Michael Todd Thigpen, of Spartanburg, for the Guardian
ad Litem.
PER CURIAM: Marilyn Lawrence appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. 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 order and relieve Lawrence's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

SHORT, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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