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. Linda McKinley, Conan Pannell, John Cunningham, and Paul D. Stradling, Defendants, Of whom John Cunningham is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-002523

Appeal From Anderson County David E. Phillips, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-284 Submitted May 25, 2016 – Filed June 7, 2016

AFFIRMED

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

Kaye Davis, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.

Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: John Cunningham appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2015). 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 that warrant briefing.

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

AFFIRMED.1 SHORT and THOMAS, JJ., and CURETON, A.J., concur.

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