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. Brandi Elaine George and Tony Lee Burnette, Defendants, Of whom Brandi Elaine George is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2015-000319

Appeal From Greenville County Kelly Pope-Black, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-362 Submitted June 17, 2016 – Filed July 13, 2016

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker, of Brandt Rucker Attorney At Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Rebecca Rush Wray, of the 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: Brandi Elaine George 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 George's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 LOCKEMY, C.J., and WILLIAMS and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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