SCDSS v. Nakita Maxwell

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: October 24, 2025
• Docket: 2024-001005
• Status: Unpublished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.

Nakita Maxwell, Steven Ables, and Bradley Bell, Defendants,

Of whom Nakita Maxwell is the Appellant

and

Steven Ables and Bradley Bell are Respondents.

In the interests of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-001005

Appeal From Oconee County David E. Phillips, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-358 Submitted October 22, 2025 – Filed October 24, 2025

AFFIRMED

Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville; and Thomas Harper Collins, of Harper Collins LLC, of Anderson, for Appellant.

Nima Fiuzat, of Easley, for Respondent Steven Ables.

Bradley Bell, of Colbert, Georgia, pro se.

Andrew Troy Potter, of Anderson, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Social Services.

Kimberly Welchel Pease, of Kimberly Welchel Pease, Attorney At Law, of Seneca, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Nakita Maxwell appeals the family court's final order terminating her parental rights to her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2025). 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 Maxwell's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

MCDONALD, HEWITT, and TURNER, JJ., concur.

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