SCDSS v. Marks

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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. Abagail Hope Marks and Nathan Terrance Lang, Defendants, Of whom Nathan Terrance Lang is the Appellant. In the interest of a minor under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2020-001482 Appeal From Laurens County Joseph C. Smithdeal, Family Court Judge Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-106 Submitted March 29, 2021 – Filed March 30, 2021 AFFIRMED Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant. Rosemerry Felder-Commander, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Laurens, for Respondent. Marcus Wesley Meetze, of Law Office of Marcus W. Meetze, LLC, of Simpsonville, for the Guardian ad Litem. PER CURIAM: Nathan Terrance Lang 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 Lang's counsel. AFFIRMED.1 WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and HILL, JJ., concur. 1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

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