EX PARTE BOWERS

No. 24359.

465 S.E.2d 354 (1995)

Ex parte Lee S. BOWERS, Mary Kay Siren and D. Thomas Johnson, Jr., Appellants. In re HAMPTON COUNTY DEPARMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent, v. Floyd and Julia BOLES, Bobbie J. Bryant, Mayan Bryant, Danny L. Capers, Sr., Lillian R. Capers, Mary Council, Helen Crosby, Katie Lou Dobson, et al, and Katrina Fields, Verdell Owens, Elizabeth Frazier, et al, and Diane Gardner, John Monroe, Eddie Patterson, Lillie and Cleveland Robinson, Julie Mae Russell, Karen Smith, Samuel White, Defendants. JASPER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent, v. Nina MINGLEDORFF, Defendant. In re Christopher MINGLEDORFF, Christy Mingledorff, Minors under the age of 18.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided December 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Dibble, Jr., of McNair & Sanford, P.A.; and Stephen A. Spitz, Columbia, for appellants.

Deborah A. Malphrus, Ridgeland, for respondents.

George B. Cauthen, Steven A. McKelvey, Jr., and Shannon L. Till, all of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, for amicus curiae, South Carolina Bar.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants, who are attorneys licensed to practice law in this State, challenged their appointments as guardians ad litem or counsel in eighteen family court matters filed in Jasper and Hampton Counties. They asserted that these appointments placed an undue burden on them because of the limited number of attorneys available for appointment in those counties. While agreeing that the burden was inequitable, the family court denied any relief holding any...

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