SCDSS v. Mize

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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.

Brenda Faye Mize and David Mize, Defendants,

Of whom David Mize is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2018-002253

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

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-163
Submitted May 19, 2020 – Filed May 27, 2020

AFFIRMED

Jennifer Lynn Mook, of Law Office of Jennifer Mook,
LLC, of Aiken, for Appellant.

Andrew Troy Potter, of the South Carolina Department
of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.
Kimberly Welchel Pease, of Kimberly R. Welchel,
Attorney at Law, of Seneca, for the Guardian ad Litem
for the minor children.

PER CURIAM: David Mize appeals the family court's final order terminating his
parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp.
2019). 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 Mize's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and GEATHERS and HEWITT, JJ., concur.

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