SCDSS v. Phagan

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.

Sharon Michelle Stewart Phagan and Joe Dan Reece, Jr.,
Appellants,

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001152

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Debra A. Matthews, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-011
Submitted December 14, 2018 – Filed January 3, 2019

AFFIRMED

Rosalyn Henderson Myers, of Henderson Law Group, of
Spartanburg, for Appellant Sharon Michelle Stewart
Phagan.

John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of
The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant
Joe Dan Reece.
Kathryn J. Walsh, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

Wendy Nicole Griffith, of the Talley Law Firm, P.A., of
Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem for the minor
children.

Cory Hughes, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem
for Appellant Sharon Michelle Stewart Phagan.

PER CURIAM: Sharon Phagan and Joe Reece, Jr., appeal the family court's final
order terminating their parental rights to their minor children. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2018). 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 Phagan's counsel and
Reece's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and THOMAS and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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