SCDSS v. Doss

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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.

Jessica Doss, Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-001656

Appeal From York County
Thomas H. White, IV, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-181
Submitted April 6, 2017 – Filed April 26, 2017

AFFIRMED

Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of
Union, for Appellant.

R. Chadwick Smith, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Rock Hill, for Respondent.

Susan Johnston, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM: Jessica Doss appeals the family court's final order terminating
her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2016). 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 Doss's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

GEATHERS, MCDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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