In the Interest of Ryan E.

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

In the Interest
of Ryan E., a Minor Under the Age of Seventeen, Appellant.

Appeal From Greenville County

Letitia H. Verdin, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2012-UP-086

Submitted February 1, 2012 – Filed
February 22, 2012

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Elizabeth
Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy
Attorney General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Attorney General Deborah R. J.
Shupe, all of Columbia; and Solicitor W. Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville,
for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Ryan
E. appeals a family court order determining that the issue of whether or not to
place him on the sex offender registry would be reserved for a hearing upon his
release from confinement at the Department of Juvenile Justice.  We dismiss[1] pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and
the following authority:  Tracy v. Tracy, 384 S.C. 91, 99, 682 S.E.2d
14, 18 (Ct. App. 2009) ("Before any
action can be maintained, a justiciable controversy must be present.  A justiciable
controversy is a real and substantial controversy which is ripe and appropriate
for judicial determination, as distinguished from a contingent, hypothetical or
abstract dispute." (internal citations omitted)).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

FEW, C.J., HUFF and SHORT,
JJ., concur.

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