SCDSS v. Driggers

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.

Jessica Driggers, Lillie Hastings, Brandon Hastings, and
John Doe, Defendants,

Of Whom Jessica Driggers is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2013-002364

Appeal From Greenwood County
John M. Rucker, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-038
Submitted December 29, 2014 – Filed January 13, 2015

AFFIRMED

Montford Shuler Caughman, of Caughman Law, LLC, of
Lexington, for Appellant.
Robert Wallis Cone, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

Carson McCurry Henderson, of The Henderson Law
Firm, PC, of Greenwood, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Jessica Driggers appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-
2570 (Supp. 2014). 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 that warrant briefing.
Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Driggers's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, SHORT, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

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