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. Donald McKenzie, Nancy McKenzie, and John Doe, Defendants, Of whom Nancy McKenzie is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2019-001083

Appeal From Sumter County Thomas M. Bultman, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-374 Submitted November 15, 2019 – Filed December 3, 2019

AFFIRMED

Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Steve Bernard Suchomski, of Sumter, for Respondent.

Edgar R. Donnald, Jr., of Sumter, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Nancy McKenzie appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. 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 McKenzie's counsel.

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

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