El derecho al divorcio de las personas con discapacidad intelectual.

Abstract

Persons with intellectual disabilities are protected by different supranational standards, which generally include measures of inclusion, accessibility and especially nondiscrimination in favor of this vulnerable group. However, the legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities was not discussed until the promulgation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which establishes that persons with disabilities should have legal capacity in the same conditions as other persons, as well as a number of rights. In that sense, in Ecuador several modifications were made with respect to the denominations that were given to people with intellectual disabilities, at that time referred to in the articles as "insane" which was clearly a discriminatory and cruel term. However, there are still unclear rules that leave people with intellectual disabilities defenseless, such as article 126 of the Civil Code.