SCDSS v. Brake

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.

Bruce L. Hudson, Lola J. Brake, and Richard
Witherspoon, Defendants,

Of whom Lola J. Brake is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2017-000522

Appeal From Richland County
Monét S. Pincus, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-350
Submitted August 16, 2017 – Filed August 28, 2017

AFFIRMED

John Clark Phillips, Jr., of Law Office of John C.
Phillips, Jr., of Columbia, for Appellant.

Patrick H. Nance, of Patrick H. Nance, Attorney at Law,
of Columbia, as Guardian ad Litem for Appellant.
James Tyler Burns, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Betsy White Burton, of Richland County CASA, of
Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem for the minor child.

PER CURIAM: Lola J. Brake appeals the family court's final order terminating
her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2016). After 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 Brake's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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