SCDSS v. Cox

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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.

Celena Kaye Autrey Cox and Tommy Lee Cox,
Defendants,

Of whom Celena Kaye Autrey Cox is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2019-000435

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Phillip K. Sinclair, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-402
Submitted December 4, 2019 – Filed December 17, 2019

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of
The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for
Appellant.
Robert C. Rhoden, III, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

Jacqueline Alicia Moss, of Law Firm of Jacqueline Moss,
of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Celena Kaye Autrey Cox appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2019). 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 Cox'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.