SCDSS v. Conner

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.

Bethany F. Conner, Christopher Sible and Tonya Jacobs,
Defendants,

Of whom Bethany F. Conner is the Appellant,

and

Christopher Sible and Tonya Jacobs are Respondents.

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

Appellate Case No. 2017-002298

Appeal From Colleton County
Gerald C. Smoak, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-354
Submitted July 26, 2018 – Filed August 10, 2018

AFFIRMED

Mary Patricia Crawford, of Walterboro, for Appellant.
Anne Marie Ugarte, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Walterboro, for Respondent South
Carolina Department of Social Services.

Lyn Howell Hensel, of Law Office of Lyn Howell
Hensel, of Columbia, for Respondent Christopher Sible.

Tonya Jacobs, of Walterboro, pro se.

Gregory Michael Galvin, of Galvin Law Group, of
Bluffton, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Bethany Conner appeals a judicial review order placing her
minor daughter in the custody of Tonya Jacobs, granting Conner and Christopher
Sible visitation at Jacobs's discretion, and allowing the Department of Social
Services to close its case. 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 warrant briefing.
Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Conner's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

SHORT, THOMAS, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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