SCDSS v. Manus

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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.

Courtney Manus, Jermaine Jackson, and John Doe,
Defendants,

Of whom Jermaine Jackson is the Appellant,

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

Appellate Case No. 2013-001604

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Usha J. Bridges, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2014-UP-308
Submitted July 25, 2014 – Filed July 31, 2014

AFFIRMED

Richard Whitney Allen, of The Law Offices of Richard
W. Allen, L.L.C., of Laurens, for Appellant.

Kathryn Walsh Gooch, of the South Carolina Department
of Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.
Michael Todd Thigpen, of Spartanburg, for Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: Jermaine Jackson appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570
(2010 & Supp. 2013). 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.

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, KONDUROS, and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

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