SCDSS v. Flor Martinez Constgante

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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.

Julio Ochoa Reyes, Flor Azucena Martinez Constante,
and Elsa Quiroz Reyes, Defendants,

Of whom Flor Azucena Martinez Constante is the
Appellant.

In the interests of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2023-000303

Appeal From Spartanburg County
M. Todd Thigpen, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2023-UP-338
Submitted October 19, 2023 – Filed October 20, 2023

AFFIRMED

Jennifer Lynn Mook, of Law Office of Jennifer Mook,
LLC, of Aiken, for Appellant.

Kathryn J. Walsh, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.
Wendy Nicole Griffith, of Talley Law Firm, P.A., of
Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Flor Azucena Martinez Constante appeals the family court's final
order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2022). 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 Constante's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

MCDONALD and VINSON, JJ., and BROMELL HOLMES, A.J., concur.

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