SCDSS v. Maria-Hernandez

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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.

Jennifer Aguilar-Hernandez, J. Cruz Maria-Hernandez,
and Julio Herman Aguilar Morales, Defendants,

Of whom J. Cruz Maria-Hernandez is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2021-000624

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

Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-332
Submitted September 9, 2021 – Filed September 13, 2021

AFFIRMED

Mary Elizabeth Parrilla, of The Parrilla Law Firm, LLC,
of Anderson, for Appellant.

Andrew Troy Potter, of Anderson, for Respondent.
John Marshall Swails, Jr., of Greenville, as Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: J. Cruz Maria-Hernandez appeals the family court's final order
terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570
(Supp. 2020). 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 Maria-Hernandez's
counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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