Disability rarely features in family law texts. Where disability is acknowledged,
it is often as an exception to the norm or rule in a statute or judicial
precedent. Disability may be seen as a burden or cost, or a problem to be
fixed. It appears generally in discussions of the law relating to parental
financial support for children, or to the division of assets on separation,
or perhaps more often, as a complicating factor in relation to wills and
testamentary capacity. Disabled people then tend to play a fleeting cameo
role in family law.