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. Latasha Martin Lee and William David Wooten, Defendants, Of whom William David Wooten is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2014-002403

Appeal From Greenville County Tarita A. Dunbar, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-246 Submitted April 7, 2015 – Filed May 4, 2015

AFFIRMED

R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Law Office of R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Greenville, for Appellant.

Jonathan Ashley Neal, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Robert John Stephenson, IV, of Robert J. Stephenson, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: William David Wooten appeals the family court's order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2014). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex Parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing.

Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Wooten's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 SHORT, LOCKEMY, and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

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