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. Shelbey Darlene Gissendanner, Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2017-000178

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

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-032 Submitted December 20, 2017 – Filed January 16, 2018

AFFIRMED

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

Phillips, Jr., of Columbia, for Appellant.

Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent.

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

PER CURIAM: Shelbey Darlene Gissendanner appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63­7­2570 (Supp. 2017). 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 Gissendanner's Counsel.

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

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