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. Sharon Laws and James Carroll, Defendants, Of whom Sharon Laws is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2016-000763

Appeal From Lexington County Michelle M. Hurley, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-410 Submitted August 16, 2016 – Filed September 12, 2016

AFFIRMED

Anna Rawl Good, of Law Office of Anna Good, LLC, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Jordan Phillip Gibson, of West Columbia, for Respondent.

Robin Page, of Law Office of Robin Page, LLC, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Sharon Laws appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her 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 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 Laws' counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 HUFF, SHORT, and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

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