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. Celena Kaye Autrey Cox and Tommy Lee Cox, Defendants, Of whom Celena Kaye Autrey Cox is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2019-000435

Appeal From Spartanburg County Phillip K. Sinclair, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-402 Submitted December 4, 2019 – Filed December 17, 2019

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Robert C. Rhoden, III, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

Jacqueline Alicia Moss, of Law Firm of Jacqueline Moss, of Spartanburg, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Celena Kaye Autrey Cox appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2019). 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 Cox's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 LOCKEMY, C.J., and THOMAS and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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