SCDSS v. Mize

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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.

Brenda Faye Mize and David Mize, Defendants,

Of whom Brenda Faye Mize is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2019-000027

Appeal From Oconee County
Karen F. Ballenger, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-164
Submitted May 19, 2020 – Filed May 27, 2020

AFFIRMED

Allyson Sue Rucker, of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of
Greenville, for Appellant.

Andrew Troy Potter, of the South Carolina Department
of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.
Kimberly Welchel Pease, of Kimberly R. Welchel,
Attorney at Law, of Seneca, for the Guardian ad Litem
for the minor children.

PER CURIAM: Brenda Faye Mize appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor children. 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 Mize's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and GEATHERS and HEWITT, JJ., concur.

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