SCDSS v. Ginger Grogan

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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.

Bernard Grogan and Ginger A. Grogan, Defendants,

Of whom Ginger A. Grogan is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2019-000134

Appeal From Newberry County
Joseph C. Smithdeal, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-320
Submitted September 11, 2019 – Filed September 24, 2019

AFFIRMED

A. Bea Hightower, of Aiken & Hightower, of Columbia,
for Appellant.

Sarah M. Ahmad, of the South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Newberry, for Respondent.
James N. Parr, Jr., of James N Parr, Jr., Attorney at Law,
of Newberry, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Ginger A. Grogan appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (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 Grogan's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, WILLIAMS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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