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. Jenae Taniesha Wiggins and Victor Jerome Smith, Sr., Defendants, Of whom Victor Jerome Smith, Sr. is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-001763

Appeal From Richland County Gwendlyne Y. Jones, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-141 Submitted April 15, 2025 – Filed April 22, 2025

AFFIRMED

Nancy Carol Fennell, of Irmo, for Appellant.

Becky M. Millholland, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Angela L. Kohel, of Richland County CASA, of Columbia, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Victor Jerome Smith, Sr. appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. 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.

AFFIRMED. 1 THOMAS, HEWITT, and CURTIS, JJ., concur.

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