SCDSS v. Heather R. Taylor

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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. Heather Renae Taylor and David Leon Allred, III, Defendants, Of whom Heather Renae Taylor is the Appellant. In the interest of a minor under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2020-001655 Appeal From Laurens County Mindy W. Zimmerman, Family Court Judge Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-334 Submitted September 15, 2021 – Filed September 20, 2021 AFFIRMED Heather Vry Scalzo, of Byford & Scalzo, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant. Rosemerry Felder-Commander, of the 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: Heather Renae Taylor appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her 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 Taylor's counsel. AFFIRMED. 1 HUFF, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur. 1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

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