Boone County (Ky.) recognized for child support enforcement.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Performing at the top of their game, the Boone County office of child support, along with county attorney Robert Neace, were recognized.

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Boone County sees more than 4,000 cases on an annual basis and was honored by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for its work in child support enforcement.

The CHFS announced the state's 20 top-performing child support contracting officials and one that made significant improvement during the past year.

The winners were announced earlier in Louisville at the Child Support Conference, which was sponsored by the CHFS Child Support Enforcement Program.

The CSE, part of the CHFS Department for Income Support, administers child support enforcement jointly with local contracting officials for all 120 counties.

Contracting officials are ranked based on their paternity establishments, the establishment of child support orders, child support collections and arrearage (past-due) collections.

Rankings for the 2008-09 fiscal year were made based on number of active cases.