SCDSS v. Garten

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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.

Charles M. Garten, Jr., Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-001262

Appeal From Colleton County
Gerald C. Smoak, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-510
Submitted November 10, 2016 – Filed December 8, 2016

AFFIRMED

Lyn Howell Hensel, of Law Office of Lyn Howell
Hensel, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Jillian D. Ullman, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Walterboro, for Respondent.

Gregory Michael Galvin, of Galvin Law Group, of
Beaufort, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM: Charles M. Garten, Jr. 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 Garten's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and KONDUROS and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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