SCDSS v. Hervert

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.

Alexis Hervert and Dustin Peavy, Defendants.

Intervening Parties: Jeannine and Richard De La Torre
and Brian and Kristin Hervert

and

Jeannine Marie De La Torre and Richard Albert De La
Torre, Respondents,

v.

Alexis Hervert, Dustin Peavy, and South Carolina
Department of Social Services, Defendants.

Of whom Alexis Hervert is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2024-000694

Appeal From Horry County
Jan B. Bromell Holmes, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2024-UP-301
Submitted August 28, 2024 – Filed August 29, 2024

AFFIRMED

Adam Sinclair Ruffin, of Ruffin Law Firm, LLC, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

James Fletcher Thompson, of Thompson Dove Law
Group, LLC, of Spartanburg, for Respondents Jeannine
Marie De La Torre and Richard Albert De La Torre.

Lucas Marion Oates, of Conway, for Respondent South
Carolina Department of Social Services.

Michael Julius Schwartz, of Russell B. Long, PA, of
Myrtle Beach, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Alexis Hervert appeals the family court's final order terminating
her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2023). 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 Hervert's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

KONDUROS, GEATHERS, and VINSON, JJ., concur.

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