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. Jessica Brown Harris, Brandon Scott Harris, and Joshua Todd Garrett, Defendants, Of whom Brandon Scott Harris is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2016-001571

Appeal From Spartanburg County Phillip K. Sinclair, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-152 Submitted March 16, 2017 – Filed April 3, 2017

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Deborah Murdock Gentry, of Murdock Law Firm, LLC, of Mauldin, for Respondent.

Wendy Nicole Griffith, of Talley Law Firm, P.A., of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Brandon Scott Harris appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7- 2570 (Supp. 2016). 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. 463, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing.

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

AFFIRMED.1 WILLIAMS and KONDUROS, JJ., and LEE, A.J., concur.

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