SCDSS v. Heather R. Taylor

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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.

Heather Renae Taylor and David Leon Allred, III,
Defendants,

Of whom Heather Renae Taylor is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2020-001655

Appeal From Laurens County
Mindy W. Zimmerman, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-334
Submitted September 15, 2021 – Filed September 20, 2021

AFFIRMED

Heather Vry Scalzo, of Byford & Scalzo, LLC, of
Greenville, for Appellant.

Rosemerry Felder-Commander, of the South Carolina
Department of Social Services, of Laurens, for
Respondent.
Marcus Wesley Meetze, of Law Office of Marcus W.
Meetze, LLC, of Simpsonville, for the Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: Heather Renae Taylor appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2020). 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 Taylor's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

HUFF, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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