SCDSS v. Pratt

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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.

Jessica Danielle Barnhill Pratt and Paul Ray Pratt,
Defendants,

Of whom Jessica Danielle Barnhill Pratt is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2020-000350

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

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-243
Submitted August 7, 2020 – Filed August 11, 2020

AFFIRMED

Melanie Carol Nicholson, of Law Office of Melanie C.
Nicholson, of North Myrtle Beach, for Appellant.

Ernest Joseph Jarrett, of Jenkinson Jarrett & Kellahan,
PA, of Kingstree, for Respondent.
Michael Julius Schwartz, of Russell B. Long, PA, and
Heather Marie Moore, of Axelrod & Associates, PA,
both of Myrtle Beach, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Jessica Danielle Barnhill Pratt appeals the family court's final
order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. 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 Pratt's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, WILLIAMS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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