SCDSS v. Tiffany Taylor

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.

Tiffany Ard, Lee Taylor, and Michael Ard, Jr.,
Defendants,

Of whom Lee Taylor is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-001616

Appeal From Florence County
James G. McGee, III, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-162
Submitted April 17, 2025 – Filed May 6, 2025

AFFIRMED

Harry A. Hancock, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Christopher Craig Jackson, of Chris Jackson Law Firm
LLC, of Mauldin, for Respondent.
Stuart Wesley Snow, Jr., of Snow & Bailey Law Firm,
P.A., of Florence, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Lee Taylor appeals the family court's final order terminating his
parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2024). 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 Taylor's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, C.J., and GEATHERS and TURNER, JJ., concur.

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