SCDSS v. Suber

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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.

Kietra O. Johnson and James A. Suber, Jr. III,
Defendants,

Of whom James A. Suber, Jr. III is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-001428

Appeal From Richland County
Coreen B. Khoury, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-093
Submitted February 27, 2017 – Filed February 23, 2017

AFFIRMED

Benjamin Reynolds Elliott, of Stevens B. Elliott,
Attorney At Law, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Anne Marie Ugarte, of University of South Carolina
School of Law, of Columbia, for Respondent.
Angela L. Kohel, of Richland County CASA, of
Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: James A. Suber, Jr. III appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2016). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family
court's findings of facts 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 Suber's
counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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