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. Geronima Castro Gutierrez, Pablo A. Ramos, Pedro Quixan Gomez, and Cruz Castro, Defendants, Of whom Pablo A. Ramos is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2024-000036

Appeal From Sumter County Ernest J. Jarrett, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2024-UP-308 Submitted August 28, 2024 – Filed September 4, 2024

AFFIRMED

Nancy Carol Fennell, of Irmo, for Appellant.

Steve Bernard Suchomski, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Sumter, for Respondent.

John Stephen Keffer, of Keffer Law Firm, of Sumter, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Pablo A. Ramos appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2023). 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.

AFFIRMED. 1 KONDUROS, GEATHERS, and VINSON, JJ., concur.

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