This article examines the multiple inter‐connected and interacting catalysts for past, current and future family court reform. We then, with deep humility and quiet ambition, contemplate the next 50 years and hypothesize about future court reform which we predict will focus on technology. We observe how what was once a fanciful idea for family courts (such as electronic filing and online court events) is realistic today. We contend that, in a similar vein, the technological reforms postulated in this article (such as judgment writing assisted by artificial intelligence) may become the reality of the future.1 Key points for the family court community: There are myriad direct, indirect, and interacting catalysts for family court reform, past, present and in some cases ongoing into the future such as social changes, funding and resources, and the need for efficiency.Artificial intelligence ("AI") will likely automate and replace key functions including information gathering and lower‐level decision‐making but, in other areas, it will support, rather than replace judicial officers as it simply cannot have the same function and effect as human judicial officers.We contend that as AI and the metaverse develops and improves, it will reconceptualise the need for a physical courtroom.Family courts have no choice but to embrace technological change and complexity in the next 50 years even if for no other reason than to manage the more problematic aspects of emerging technology that will inevitably be used by lawyers and litigants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]