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. Stefanie Linder, Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2014-002551

Appeal from Colleton County Gerald C. Smoak, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-450 Submitted August 5, 2015 – Filed August 31, 2015

AFFIRMED

Marshall L. Horton, of Horton Law Firm, LLC, of Bluffton, for Appellant.

Jillian D. Ullman, of the Department of Social Services, of Walterboro, for Respondent.

Gregory Michael Galvin, of Galvin Law Group, of Bluffton, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Stefanie Linder appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. 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 Linder's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 SHORT, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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