SCDSS v. Geddings

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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.

Elizabeth Geddings and Donald Trammell, Defendants,

Of whom Elizabeth Geddings is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000139

Appeal From Pickens County
Tarita A. Dunbar, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-283
Submitted May 22, 2015 – Filed June 9, 2015

AFFIRMED

Thomas Harper Collins, of Harper Collins LLC, of
Anderson, for Appellant.

Patti Beverly Brady, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Pickens, for Respondent.
Steven Luther Alexander, of the Alexander Law Firm, of
Pickens, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Elizabeth Geddings appeals the family court's order terminating
her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2014). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of
facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex Parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354
S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing.
Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Geddings's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

FEW, C.J., and HUFF and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

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