SCDSS v. Angel Bates

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.

Angel Bates and James Bates, Defendants,

Of whom Angel Bates is the Appellant,

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000769

Appeal From Anderson County
Karen F. Ballenger, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-551
Submitted October 28, 2015 – Filed December 1, 2015

AFFIRMED

Hugh Wingo Welborn, of Anderson, for Appellant.

Kaye Davis, of South Carolina Department of Social
Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.
Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys
at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Angel Bates appeals the family court's final order terminating
her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2014). 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 Bates's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, WILLIAMS, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.

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