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. Tiffany Ard, Lee Taylor, and Michael Ard, Jr., Defendants, Of whom Lee Taylor is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-001616

Appeal From Florence County James G. McGee, III, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-162 Submitted April 17, 2025 – Filed May 6, 2025

AFFIRMED

Harry A. Hancock, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Christopher Craig Jackson, of Chris Jackson Law Firm LLC, of Mauldin, for Respondent.

Stuart Wesley Snow, Jr., of Snow & Bailey Law Firm, P.A., of Florence, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Lee 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. 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 Taylor's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1 WILLIAMS, C.J., and GEATHERS and TURNER, JJ., concur.

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