Divorcing Couple Told to Swap Facebook Passwords

A judge has ordered a feuding Connecticut couple to turn their passwords for Facebook and dating sites over to each other's divorce lawyers. The unusual order was issued after the husband claimed that his soon-to-be ex-wife's Facebook account contained evidence that would help him win full custody of their children—and she was planning to delete it.

The judge's order violates Facebook's terms of service, which requires users not to hand over their passwords to anybody else, Forbes notes, but he did at least make it clear that he doesn't want to see the couple using their Facebook access to prank each other. "Neither party shall visit the website of the other’s social network and post messages purporting to be the other," he wrote in the order. (More Facebook stories.)