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. Brittanie Lee Moore and Shiquan Lenneal Sanders, Defendants, Of whom Shiquan Lenneal Sanders is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2020-001002

Appeal From Horry County Melissa J. Buckhannon, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-340 Submitted December 17, 2020 – Filed December 22, 2020

AFFIRMED

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

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

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

PER CURIAM: Shiquan Lenneal Sanders 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 Sanders's counsel.

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

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