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.