SCDSS v. Amos

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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.

Sara Amos and Aaron Burgess, Defendants,

Of whom Sara Amos is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2021-000732

Appeal From Sumter County
Ernest J. Jarrett, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-450
Submitted December 9, 2021 – Filed December 16, 2021

AFFIRMED

Heather Vry Scalzo, of Byford & Scalzo, LLC, of
Greenville, for Appellant.

Steve Bernard Suchomski, of South Carolina Department
of Social Services, of Sumter, for Respondent.
Edgar R. Donnald, Jr., of Sumter; and John Stephen
Keffer, of Young, Keffer & Donnald, PA, of Sumter,
both for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Sara Amos appeals from the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2020). 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 Amos's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

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

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