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. Krista Irene Blake and Floyd Allen Barnett, Defendants, Of whom Floyd Allen Barnett is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2020-000609

Appeal From Horry County Ronald R. Norton, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-248 Submitted August 12, 2020 – Filed August 19, 2020

AFFIRMED

Melanie Carol Nicholson, of Law Office of Melanie C.

Nicholson, of North Myrtle Beach, for Appellant.

Ernest Joseph Jarrett, of Jenkinson Jarrett & Kellahan, PA, of Kingstree, for Respondent.

Michael Julius Schwartz, of Russell B. Long, PA, and Heather Marie Moore, of Axelrod & Associates, PA, both of Myrtle Beach, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Floyd Allen Barnett appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his 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 Barnett's counsel.

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

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