SCDSS v. Howze

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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.

Rodnykka Porshelee Howze, Jamal Twitty, and Bobby
Lamar McCarter, Defendants,

Of whom Rodnykka Porshelee Howze is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-002352

Appeal From Lancaster County
Coreen B. Khoury, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-294
Submitted June 28, 2017 – Filed July 12, 2017

AFFIRMED

Montford Shuler Caughman, of Caughman Law, LLC, of
Lexington, for Appellant.

Shannon Lee Felder, of the South Carolina Department
of Social Services, of Lancaster, for Respondent.
Govan Thompson Myers, III, of Trimnal & Meyers,
LLC, of Lancaster, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Rodnykka Porshelee Howze appeals the family court's final
order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. §
63-7-2570 (Supp. 2016). 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 Howze's
Counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

GEATHERS, MCDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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