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Mother was in US (Illinois) on temporary work visa and met Father, also a foreign national but permanent (?) legal resident. (They are not citizens of the same country.) They dated but never married, and had a child who was born in Illinois.

When Mother went back to her home country, she took the child with her but Father stayed in IL, promising to support child by sending money to Mother in her home country. Father sent payments the first several months and even went to visit once, where he took Mother and child shopping for necessities.

Then, Father apparently found a girlfriend in IL and stopped sending payments. It's been over a year and Mother has continued to ask him to send money. Mother and child struggle even to buy bare necessities.

Does Illinois or U.S. law allow Mother to collect child support payments from Father?

(Any citations of US or IL law would be extremely helpful.)

I want to take over my friend's lease payments. I thought you can transfer a lease, but not sure how. Has anyone done this or know how to go about it?

p.s. I mean snail-mail, NOT email spam.

And what can I do to safely remove my USB device when the icon disappears? (I've tried "eject" and I get an error.)

Also, could it affect fertility/conceiving?

I've heard reports of upwards of 4,000% interest being charged and that this is now affecting more and more military families (as they go to war, they make less $$$ and their families rely on these "advancements"). Should the gov't help protect these families from interest-gouging?

I think it needs a new motherboard, but everything else should still work. Is it worth anything? Who would buy it anyway? Or should I just toss it?