SCDSS v. Blackwell

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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.

Joshua L. Dellinger and Jessica L. Blackwell,
Defendants,

Of whom Jessica L. Blackwell is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2018-000983

Appeal From York County
Thomas Henry White, IV, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-085
Submitted February 4, 2019 – Filed February 14, 2019

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.
Rebecca T. McNerney, of Charlotte, North Carolina, for
the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Jessica L. Blackwell appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her 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 Blackwell's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and SHORT and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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