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. Victoria Lace Sprinter Forte a/k/a Victoria Lace Deems, Joseph Gerald Slonski, and Enoch Joshua Forte, Defendants, Of whom Enoch Joshua Forte is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2023-001915

Appeal From Abbeville County Matthew P. Turner, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2024-UP-267 Submitted July 17, 2024 – Filed July 18, 2024

AFFIRMED

Vernon Bailey Atkins, III, of Atkins Law Firm, P.A., of Greenville, for Appellant.

Kathryn J. Walsh, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

David E. Simpson, of David Simpson, Attorney and Counselor at Law, of Rock Hill, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Enoch Joshua Forte appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. 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 and relieve Forte's counsel.

AFFIRMED. 1 WILLIAMS, C.J., and THOMAS and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

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