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 Loryn Britt and Dustin Britt, Respondents, v. Phillip Edward Tindall, Barbara Nutter Hicklin, and David Ernest Hicklin, Defendants, Of whom Phillip Edward Tindall is the Appellant.

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

Appellate Case No. 2024-001043

Appeal From Florence County Holly H. Wall, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-045 Submitted January 31, 2025 – Filed February 3, 2025

AFFIRMED

Melinda Inman Butler, of The Butler Law Firm, of Union, for Appellant.

Marian Dawn Nettles, of Nettles Turbeville & Reddeck, of Lake City; and Brooke Chapman Evans, of Evans & Turnblad, LLC, of Florence, both for Respondents.

Philip Bryan Atkinson, of the Atkinson Law Firm, LLC, of Florence, as Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Phillip Edward Tindall appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor child. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2024). 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 Tindall's counsel.

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

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