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 Horace Eugene Privette, Jr. and Tracy Irene Garrity Privette, Respondents, v. Autumn Shana Garrity-Johnson, Cory Shane Jeffries, and South Carolina Department of Social Services, Defendants, Of whom Cory Shane Jeffries is the Appellant and Autumn Shana Garrity-Johnson and South Carolina Department of Social Services are Respondents.

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

Appellate Case No. 2020-001429

Appeal From York County M. Todd Thigpen, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2021-UP-317 Submitted August 24, 2021 – Filed August 31, 2021

AFFIRMED Harry A. Hancock, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Respondent Autumn Shana Garrity-Johnson.

Larry Dale Dove, of Dove Law Group, LLC, of Rock Hill, for Respondents Horace Eugene Privette, Jr. and Tracy Irene Garrity Privette.

R. Chadwick Smith, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Rock Hill, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services.

April Dawn Porter, of Law Office of April D. Porter, P.C., of Chester, as Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Cory Shane Jeffries appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. 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 Jeffries' counsel.

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

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