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. Angel Clayton, Quincey Rogers, Dezmon Rice, John Doe, Aisha Rice, and Clarence Rice, Defendants, Of whom Angel Clayton is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2020-001395

Appeal From Greenville County Rochelle Y. Conits, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-226 Submitted May 27, 2021 – Filed June 16, 2021

AFFIRMED

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

Amanda B. Stiles, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Megan Goodwin Burke, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Angel Clayton appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2020). 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 Clayton's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 LOCKEMY, C.J., and HUFF and HEWITT, JJ., concur.

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