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STINECIPHER v. BALLINGTON

No. 4024.

366 S.C. 92 (2005)

620 S.E.2d 93

Thomas Henry STINECIPHER and Hipolita Viego Stinecipher, Appellants, v. Thomas Ray BALLINGTON and Christopher Austin Ballington, a minor under the age of ten (10) years, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided September 12, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Gwyn DuBose-Schmitt, of Lexington and Thomas M. Neal, of Columbia, for Appellants.

James B. Richardson, Jr., of Columbia, for Respondents.

George W. Branstiter, of Lexington, for Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a family court order declining to terminate Thomas Ray Ballington's parental rights to his minor son, Christopher Austin Ballington (Austin). Austin's maternal grandparents, the Stineciphers, appeal, arguing the family court erred in failing to find Ballington, who is serving a life sentence for murdering Austin's mother, wilfully failed to support or wilfully failed to visit Austin. The Stineciphers further argue the family court...

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