SCDSS v. Tedric Valentine

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: June 26, 2025
• Docket: 2024-000893
• Status: Unpublished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.

Catherine Maness, Tedric Valentine, and John Doe, Defendants,

Of whom Tedric Valentine is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-000893

Appeal From Greenville County Thomas T. Hodges, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-211 Submitted June 6, 2025 – Filed June 26, 2025

AFFIRMED

John Brandt Rucker and Allyson Sue Rucker, both of The Rucker Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant. Amanda Stiles, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Don J. Stevenson, of Don J. Stevenson, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Tedric Valentine 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.

AFFIRMED.1

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

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