SCDSS v. Katie J. Smalley

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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.

Katie J. Smalley and Travis Black, Defendants,

Of whom Katie J. Smalley is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2022-000745

Appeal From Richland County
Gwendlyne Y. Jones, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2022-UP-446
Submitted November 14, 2022 – Filed December 7, 2022

AFFIRMED

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

Kathryn J. Walsh, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.
Tiffany J. Lumpkin, of Daniels, Anderson & Lumpkin
P.A., of Mt. Pleasant, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Katie J. Smalley appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2022). 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 Smalley's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

WILLIAMS, C.J., THOMAS, J., and LOCKEMY, A.J., concur.

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