SCDSS v. Mize,

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THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE 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. 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 Appellate Case No. 2018-002253 Appeal From Oconee County Karen F. Ballenger, Family Court Judge Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-163 Submitted May 19, 2020 – Filed May 27, 2020 AFFIRMED Jennifer Lynn Mook, of Law Office of Jennifer Mook, LLC, of Aiken, for Appellant.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.

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