Charleston County Department of Social Services v. T.W.

THIS OPINION HAS NO
PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

Charleston
County Department of Social Services, Respondent,

v.

T.W., J.J., and
K.W., Defendants,

of whom T.W. is Appellant.

In
the interest of two minor children under the age of 18 years.

Appeal from Charleston County

Judy L. McMahon, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2009-UP-200

Submitted May 1, 2009 – Filed May 15, 2009

AFFIRMED

Gregory A DeLuca, of Goose Creek, for Appellant.

Frampton Durban, Jr., of North Charleston, for Respondent.

Amanda B. Keaveny, of Charleston, for Guardian Ad Litem.

PER
CURIAM: T.W. (Mother). appeals from the family court's order requiring entry
of her name into the Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect, enjoining her
children's custodial grandparents from allowing any contact with Mother, and authorizing
DSS to forego reasonable efforts to reunite Mother's family.  See S.C. Code Ann. §§ 63-7-1640, 63-7-1940(C) (2008).

After 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), and S.C.
Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Frederick Downer, Sr., S.C. Sup. Ct. Order dated
February 2, 2005 (expanding the procedure set forth in Cauthen to
situations where an indigent person appeals from an order imposing measures, other
than the termination of parental rights, which are based upon child abuse and
neglect), the family court's
order is

AFFIRMED.[1]

HEARN, C.J., CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J.,
concur.

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