SCDSS v.Clayton Thomas Anglin

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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 Amanda Anglin a/k/a Sara Amanda Bailey and
Clayton Thomas Anglin, Defendants,

Of whom Clayton Thomas Anglin is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2021-001506

Appeal From Greenville County
Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2022-UP-176
Submitted April 14, 2022 – Filed April 21, 2022

AFFIRMED

Vernon Bailey Atkins, III, of Atkins Law Firm, P.A., of
Greenville, for Appellant.

Rebecca Rush Wray, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.
Robert A. Clark, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: Clayton Thomas Anglin appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to three of his minor children and ordering a
permanent plan of relative placement for two of his minor children. See S.C. Code
Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2021). 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),1 we find no meritorious issues
warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve
Anglin's counsel.

AFFIRMED.2

GEATHERS and HILL, JJ., and LOCKEMY, A.J., concur.

1
See also S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Downer, S.C. Sup. Ct. Order dated Feb. 2,
2005 (expanding the Cauthen procedure to situations when "an indigent person
appeals from an order imposing other measures short of termination of parental
rights").
2
We decide this case without argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.