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. Kevin Rodgers and Christine Anderson, Defendants, Of whom Christine Anderson is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2017-002240

Appeal From Aiken County Vicki J. Snelgrove, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-254 Submitted May 14, 2018 – Filed June 8, 2018

AFFIRMED

Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant.

Andrew Blaine Farley, of Lexington, for Respondent.

Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants & Massey, of Aiken, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Christine Anderson appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2017). Upon a thorough review of the transcript and the family court's findings of fact 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 Anderson's counsel.

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

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