SCDSS v. Thomas

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.

Tina Thomas and Donnie Ray Bragg, Defendants,

Of Whom Tina Thomas is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2015-000562

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Kelly Pope-Black, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-359
Submitted July 1, 2016 – Filed July 11, 2016

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker, of Brandt Rucker Attorney At Law,
of Greenville, for Appellant.

Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC,
of Mauldin, for Respondent.
Michael Todd Thigpen, of Spartanburg, for the Guardian
ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Tina Thomas appeals the family court's final order terminating
her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2015). 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 Thomas's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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