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. Sonia Louise Patterson, Joshua Gatewood, Jermaine Starks, Marcus Lee and John Doe, Defendants, Of whom Sonia L. Patterson is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000582

Appeal From Greenville County Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-534 Submitted October 30, 2015 – Filed November 20, 2015

AFFIRMED

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

Rebecca Rush Wray, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Sonia Louise Patterson appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her three minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2014). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's finding 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 Sonia Louise Patterson's counsel.

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

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