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. Carrie Badger and Jonathan Crane, Defendants, Of whom Carrie Badger is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2017-002074

Appeal From Aiken County Peter R. Nuessle, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-361 Submitted August 22, 2018 – Filed August 24, 2018

AFFIRMED

Montford Shuler Caughman, of Caughman Law, LLC, of Lexington, for Appellant.

Susanna M. Ringler, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Aiken, for Respondent.

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

PER CURIAM: Carrie Badger 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 record 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 warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Badger's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 KONDUROS, MCDONALD, and HILL, JJ., concur.

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