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. Angelica Bustos and Samuel Taylor, Defendants, Of whom Samuel Taylor is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2022-000167

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

Unpublished Opinion No. 2022-UP-289 Submitted June 21, 2022 – Filed June 29, 2022

AFFIRMED

Robert Mills Ariail, Jr., of Law Office of R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Greenville, for Appellant.

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

Robert A. Clark, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Samuel Taylor appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2021). 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 Taylor's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1 GEATHERS and HILL, JJ., and LOCKEMY, A.J., concur.

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