SCDSS v. Clement

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.

Jamaica Morrison, Preston Ellis, and Jerick Clement,
Defendants,

Of whom Jamaica Morrison is the Appellant

and

Preston Ellis and Jerick Clement are Respondents.

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

Appellate Case No. 2019-002113

Appeal From Greenville County
Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-174
Submitted May 27, 2020 – Filed June 4, 2020

AFFIRMED

Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks,
Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Andrew Troy Potter, of Anderson, for Respondent South
Carolina Department of Social Services.

Heather Vry Scalzo, of Byford & Scalzo, LLC, of
Greenville, for Respondent Jerick Clement.

Preston Ellis, pro se.

Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law,
of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Jamaica Morrison 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 Morrison's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, THOMAS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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