SCDSS v. Martha Bulter

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: July 24, 2025
• Docket: 2024-001922
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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.

Martha Butler, Willie Sims, and Cheyenne Whitsell, Defendants,

Of whom Martha Butler is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-001922

Appeal From Edgefield County Robert E. Newton, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-266 Submitted July 17, 2025 – Filed July 24, 2025

AFFIRMED

Nancy Carol Fennell, of Irmo, for Appellant.

Luke Taylor Moore, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Lexington, for Respondent.

Eydie J. Tillman, of Tillman Law Firm, LLC, of Edgefield, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Martha Butler appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her 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

VINSON, TURNER, and CURTIS, JJ., concur.

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