SCDSS v. Scruggs

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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.

Kerry Scruggs, Paiton Smith, Rydrekus Washington,
Guyion Mallory and Kimberly Mallory, Defendants,

Of whom Kerry Scruggs is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2018-001773

Appeal From Spartanburg County
James F. Fraley, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-105
Submitted March 8, 2019 – Filed March 11, 2019

AFFIRMED

Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of
Union, for Appellant.

Kathryn J. Walsh, of McIlveen Family Law Firm, of
Spartanburg, for Respondent.
Jacqueline Alicia Moss, of Law Firm of Jacqueline Moss,
of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Kerry Scruggs appeals the family court's final order awarding
legal custody of her minor children to Kimberly Mallory and Guyion Mallory and
allowing the South Carolina Department of Social Services to close its case. See
S.C. Code Ann. §§ 63-7-1640(C), -1700(G) (Supp. 2018). 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 Scruggs's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

HUFF, THOMAS, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

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