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. Beyonka L. Triplett, Alton Triplett, and Jason Johnson, Defendants, Of whom Alton Triplett is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2017-000428

Appeal From Richland County Monét S. Pincus, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-377 Submitted September 12, 2017 – Filed October 10, 2017

AFFIRMED

John Clark Phillips, Jr., of Law Office of John C.

Phillips, Jr., of Columbia, for Appellant.

James Tyler Burns, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Angela L. Kohel, of Richland County CASA, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Alton Triplett appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2016). After 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 Triplett's counsel.

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

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