This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law.

Beverley Clough is Associate Professor in Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds.

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford.

Introduction

Part I Care relations in policy context

1. Disability and care: Theoretical antagonisms revisited

2. Mothering, disability and care: Beyond the prison wall

3. Children care

4. Ageing, disability and family life

Part II Disabled children: Interacting with institutional and legal settings

5. Children's understanding of disabilities

6. Deprivation of liberty, parental consent and the rights of the child

7. Transforming family responsibilities: Children with disabilities, parental responsibility and family life

Part III Adults and family relationships

8. The exam it is impossible to pass: How disabled parents are at risk of having to prove the impossible in care proceedings

9. "He got down on one knee": Intellectual disability, intimacy and family law'

10. Protecting disabled adults from abusive family relationships: Mental capacity, autonomy and vulnerability

11. Law and dementia: Family context and the experience of dementia in old age