Add a child's use of Facebook to the list of topics dueling custodial parents might fight about. It also might be an issue for a court's custodial decree.

Heath Caples alleged in his custodial challenge that his daughter's maternal grandmother-who the court said had primarily raised the child-was too lenient. The father objected that his then nine-year-old daughter, K.C., was permitted to have a cell phone, a Facebook account, and wear fake fingernails.

The district court in the case did not remove primary custody of K.C. from her grandmother. That unpublished ruling was attached to a July 25 opinion by Louisiana's intermediate appellate court affirming the ruling (Caples v. Caples, La. Ct. App., No. 47,491-CA, 7/25/12).

The district court permitted K.C. to keep her cell phone, but agreed with Heath that the Facebook page should be shut down. "The Court's information is that she is too young to qualify for one, anyway," the court said.

The appellate court's ruling noted that K.C. lied about her age in order to create the account, which highlights a problem faced by the social media company. Facebook only permits those 13 or older to join, but a June 25 letter to Congress from the company noted studies showing large numbers of younger children were already on the site.

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