Epps v. Epps

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

Barbara A. Epps, Respondent,

v.

Joe Dean Epps,
Jr., Appellant.

Appeal From Greenville County

Robert N. Jenkins, Sr., Family Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2012-UP-146  

Submitted February 1, 2012 – Filed March
7, 2012

APPEAL DISMISSED

Joe Dean Epps, Jr., pro se, of Conway.

Randall L. Chambers, of Greenville, for
Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Joe Dean Epps Jr. (Husband) appeals from two family court orders: the first equitably
divided the parties' marital property and granted alimony to Barbara A. Epps
(Wife) and the second awarded Wife half of Husband's military retirement.  Because procedural defects[1] preclude meaningful review of this
appeal, we dismiss[2] pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following authorities: Rule 208(b)(1)(B), SCACR ("Ordinarily, no point
will be considered which is not set forth in the statement of the issues on
appeal."); Rule 211(b), SCACR (requiring the content of a party's final
brief to be identical to the initial brief, with the exception of revising the
references "to indicate where the material appears in the Record on
Appeal" and correcting obvious typographical errors and misspellings
contained in the initial brief); Rule 210(c), SCACR (excluding from the record
any "matter which was not presented to the lower court").

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and LOCKEMY,
JJ., concur.

[1] Most significantly, Husband never served or filed a
final appellant's brief; instead, as his "final brief," Husband
submitted a bound reply brief containing no statement of the issues on appeal.

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