SCDSS v.Donlon

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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.

Steven Gantt, Carolina S. Ramsey, and Dominic Donlon,
Defendants,

Of whom Dominic Donlon is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2023-001410

Appeal From Colleton County
Deborah A. Malphrus, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2024-UP-121
Submitted April 11, 2024 – Filed April 12, 2024

AFFIRMED

Harry A. Hancock, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Sally C. Dey, of South Carolina Department of Social
Services, of North Charleston, for Respondent.
Mary Christine Hardee, of South Carolina Department of
Children's Advocacy, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: Dominic Donlon appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570
(Supp. 2023). 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 Donlon's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

THOMAS, MCDONALD, and VERDIN, JJ., concur.

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