SCDSS v. Wayne Edwards

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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.

Alicia Dawn Edwards and Wayne Edwards, Defendants,

Of whom Wayne Edwards is the Appellant.

In the interests of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2023-000915

Appeal From Greenville County
Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2023-UP-334
Submitted October 19, 2023 – Filed October 20, 2023

AFFIRMED

Vernon Bailey Atkins, III, of Atkins Law Firm, P.A., of
Greenville, for Appellant.

Kathryn J. Walsh, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg; and Rebecca Rush
Wray, of South Carolina Department of Social Services,
of Greenville, both for Respondent.
Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law,
of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Wayne Edwards appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his 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 Edwards'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.