SCDSS v. Pellett

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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.

Chaslyn Amber Summers-Dunaway, Ronald Robert
Mercure, Matthew David Pellett, and Dwayne Paul
Dunaway, Defendants,

of whom Matthew Pellett is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000254

Appeal From Horry County
Ronald R. Norton, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-249
Submitted May 26, 2016 – Filed June 1, 2016

AFFIRMED

Heather Michelle Cannon, of Heather M. Cannon, LLC,
of Conway, for Appellant.
Charles Richard Rhodes, Jr., of Charles R. Rhodes Jr.
PC, of Conway, for Respondent.

Ian Andrew Taylor, of Taylor Law Office, of Pawleys
Island, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Matthew David Pellett appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-
2570 (Supp. 2015). 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 Pellett's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, A.C.J., and KONDUROS and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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