SCDSS v. Grooms

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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.

Michelle Grooms, Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2018-001922

Appeal From Darlington County
Michael S. Holt, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-149
Submitted April 12, 2019 – Filed April 23, 2019

AFFIRMED

Cody Tarlton Mitchell, of Lucas, Warr, White &
Mitchell, of Hartsville, for Appellant.

Laura Jo Bardsley Houck, of the South Carolina
Department of Social Services, of Chesterfield, for
Respondent.

Sarah Crawford Campbell, of Cockrell Law Firm, P.C.,
of Chesterfield, as Guardian ad Litem for Appellant.
Robbie Forrester Gardner, III, of Rob F Gardner, III, PC,
of Hartsville, for the Guardian ad Litem for the minor
child.

PER CURIAM: Michelle Grooms appeals the family court's final order
terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann.
§ 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2018). 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 Grooms's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1

WILLIAMS, GEATHERS, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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