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. Bernard Grogan and Ginger A. Grogan, Defendants, Of whom Bernard Grogan is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2019-000067

Appeal From Newberry County Joseph C. Smithdeal, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-319 Submitted September 11, 2019 – Filed September 24, 2019

AFFIRMED

Scott Daniel Spivey, of Scott Spivey, Attorney at Law, of Camden, for Appellant.

Sarah M. Ahmad, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Newberry, for Respondent.

James N. Parr, Jr., of James N Parr, Jr., Attorney at Law, of Newberry, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Bernard Grogan appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2018). 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 Grogan's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 HUFF, WILLIAMS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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