Is This Justice? Minnesota Fraud, Governor Walz, and the MN DFL Destroying Families
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I know that title is strong, but hear me out...
I walked out of the courthouse after our last hearing thinking it had gone well.
For once, it felt like the court had actually listened.
I laid everything out clearly.
The record. The timelines. The statutes. The court orders. The admissions already made on the record.
I explained that I had now gone nearly two years without meaningful parenting time with my children despite being found to be a fit parent. I explained that there are no findings under Minnesota law justifying the denial of parenting time. I explained that the children were removed from the Order for Protection on October 23, 2024 that was based on false allegations and that no court has found me dangerous or unfit.
I explained that Respondent’s counsel had already admitted on the record that he advised his client not to comply with the court’s parenting-time order, something this Court has acknowledged repeatedly throughout these proceedings, including during this most recent hearing.
I explained that despite multiple court orders, parenting time still had not been restored, which this Court acknowledged as well.
And I explained something else that should concern every parent in Minnesota:
Under Minnesota law, repeated and intentional denial of parenting time carries mandatory statutory remedies, including compensatory parenting time, sanctions, and even custody transfer when lesser remedies fail, conduct which can also rise to the level of a felony under Minnesota law.
Yet after all of that, after months of filings, hearings, affidavits, motions, warnings, delays, and continuances…
nothing changed.
The Order
The Court issued its order on May 2, 2026.
For anyone who wants to read the order for themselves instead of relying on my interpretation, I am including it below so the public can see exactly what was decided. (There are three pages—click the arrows to view them all.)
On the surface, there was one thing granted:
I am allowed to have my retained expert review Respondent’s psychological evaluation.
But then came the contradiction.
The Court simultaneously denied disclosure of the raw psychological testing data—the very information necessary for an independent expert to meaningfully evaluate or challenge the conclusions being presented.
So while the Court technically granted expert access, it denied the materials necessary for that expert to reach an independent conclusion.
That isn’t meaningful access.
That is controlled access.
And in a custody case where psychological evaluations may significantly impact the outcome of trial, limiting an expert’s ability to independently analyze the underlying data undermines the very purpose of expert review in the first place.
Sixteen Months of Ignoring Court Orders
The Court also denied my motion for contempt.
Why?
Because according to the Court, Respondent had recently made “efforts” to arrange parenting time.
Let that sink in.
After sixteen months of ignoring court orders requiring parenting time. After an ENE agreement that was never followed. After multiple written and verbal directives from the Court. After an attorney openly admitting on the record that he advised his client not to follow the parenting-time order.
The response from the Court was essentially:
"Well, now she’s trying."
I’ve now seen the children twice, which the judge would not have even known had occurred when she wrote this order, but apparently in family court, if someone ignores court orders long enough and then suddenly begins making minimal efforts right before trial, all the prior behavior is simply overlooked. Think about that in any other area of law. If someone commits a felony and later stops committing the act, does the court simply say, “Well, they’re behaving now, so all is forgiven”? Of course not. Once the act is committed—especially once it’s admitted on the record—the damage is already done, and there are consequences. But not here. Not in family court. And when you look at it through that lens, you begin to understand exactly why opposing counsel openly advised his client to ignore the court orders in the first place: because he knew there would be no meaningful consequences for doing so.
The Court reserved compensatory parenting time for trial instead of enforcing the statutory remedies that already exist under Minnesota law.
But there’s a problem with that.
Minnesota’s own statute recognizes that parenting time deprivation carries consequences because time with children cannot simply be recreated later.
And in this case, the deprivation has gone on so long that compensatory parenting time has become practically meaningless.
You cannot realistically “make up” nearly two years of lost childhood.
Especially when these are very young children.
Every day for a child is their entire world.
Educational Rights Still Ignored
The Court also refused to address educational access, claiming it had already been ruled on previously.
But the issue was never resolved.
I still do not have meaningful educational participation.
I requested disclosure of the children’s schools, daycare providers, and educational information because I have been excluded from their education entirely.
Under Minnesota law, parents are entitled to educational access unless specifically restricted by court order.
No such restriction exists.
Yet the Court still refused to act.
What makes this even more absurd is that I ultimately figured out where the children attend school myself.
I began contacting every school district in the surrounding area requesting information.
Every district was cooperative and responded that my children were not enrolled there—except one.
Hermantown Community Schools ISD 700.
They responded, but unlike the other districts, they would neither confirm nor deny enrollment.
So obviously, that tells me exactly where the children attend.
Think about how insane that is.
A legal and fit parent, with no order restricting educational access, had to effectively investigate school districts himself just to figure out where his own children go to school.
And even after all of that, the Court still refused to enforce my statutory rights.
And while courts and legislators constantly talk about “best interests of the child,” we somehow pretend it is acceptable for a fit parent to be removed not only from a child’s life—but from their school, records, teachers, conferences, activities, and development, all of which is protected exclusively under current Minnesota statute.
The Child Support Issue
Then there’s child support.
This issue has been before the Court since April 2025.
More than a year.
The Court itself previously acknowledged that the order needed to be reopened because it was not lawfully entered.
Yet enforcement continues anyway.
The Court refused to address it again, stating it had already been referred to the child support magistrate.
So despite acknowledging problems with the order, sanctions and enforcement continue against me while the issue remains unresolved.
Think about that.
An order the Court acknowledges must be reopened continues to be enforced while the actual adjudication drags on indefinitely.
How is that due process?
And the consequences of this don’t stop in the courtroom.
Since November 2025, I have been driving without a valid driver’s license because of the continued enforcement tied to this unresolved child support issue.
I’ve been pulled over three separate times after officers ran my plates and saw that the registered owner did not have a valid license.
Two of those officers looked the other way after understanding the situation.
One did issue a citation.
Fortunately, even the court clerk in Dakota County understood what was happening and agreed to hold off on moving the matter forward until the custody case is resolved.
Think about that.
Even people outside this case can see the problem.
But the system itself continues forward as if none of it matters.
And now another issue is coming.
My birthday is in June.
At that point, my current license expires.
This isn’t just about driving.
A driver’s license is also identification. It’s required for everyday life.
I can’t simply renew it because the license itself has been revoked through this process. My passport is a completely separate issue that has also been revoked by the Court.
So after more than a year of fighting this issue, I may now be forced to obtain a basic identification card instead of a valid driver’s license, despite the underlying issue still not being adjudicated, and continue driving illegally because what else am I supposed to do? I have to drive to survive. I can’t just hire a chauffeur, because I don’t have that kind of money.
And even this past week, when there was supposed to be another hearing on the issue, Respondent and opposing counsel failed to appear.
Instead of resolving it, the Court again made excuses, pushed another motion further down the road, and now I’m still waiting for the courts to schedule yet another hearing.
That’s the pattern.
Delay.
Deferral.
Enforcement without adjudication.
And while the system continues operating on its own timelines, real people continue living with the consequences every single day.
The Continuance
One of the most frustrating parts of this case has not just been the continuance itself, but the complete refusal to even address the motion I filed seeking sanctions and disclosure regarding it.
Our original custody trial was scheduled for January 2026.
Respondent’s counsel requested a Rule 18 personal leave continuance based on claimed medical limitations, and the Court moved trial all the way to June 2026.
That continuance alone added another five months onto a case where I had already gone well over a year without meaningful parenting time.
But what happened afterward is what should concern people.
During the exact same period counsel Shawn Reinke claimed he could not proceed with this case, he was still publicly appearing and performing official duties as Mayor of Paynesville, Minnesota.
I submitted evidence documenting this.
I also provided information that he continued appearing in other proceedings during the same time period.
So I filed a motion requesting disclosure and sanctions—not for private medical information, but simply asking the Court to examine whether the continuance was applied consistently, in good faith, and whether the scope of the delay was broader than necessary given counsel’s apparent ability to continue other professional and public duties.
And the Court refused to even consider it.
Not denied.
Not disproven.
Ignored.
The Court simply stated the issue had “already been addressed previously.”
That was it.
So the continuance stands.
The sanctions motion goes nowhere.
And every additional month of delay becomes another month my children remain separated from me while the system simply moves on as if that time means nothing.
No Expedited Relief
I also requested expedited issuance of the Court’s order.
Why?
Because when trial is only a month away, delayed rulings make interim relief meaningless.
If the Court waits until the eve of trial to rule on parenting time, educational access, enforcement, or expert preparation issues, then those rights effectively never existed at all.
But the Court denied expedited relief too, stating it had ninety days to issue orders and saw no reason to deviate from that timeline.
That response perfectly captures the problem.
The system treats time as procedural.
Parents and children experience it as loss.
Not that it would have mattered much in this case anyway since she denied nearly every motion I brought before the Court, but she also made something else very clear in this order: she intends to take the full ninety days to issue rulings whenever she chooses to do so.
Think about that.
Our final custody trial starts in early June.
Which means there is a very real possibility that we may not even have a final custody order until September.
So while the Court talks about procedure and timelines, children continue growing up in the middle of unresolved litigation.
Months become years.
And for families living through it, those delays are not procedural delays.
They are lost childhoods, lost relationships, and lost time that no court can ever give back.
The Part the Court Didn’t Even Address
During the hearing, I also asked the Court for something else.
I asked that my immediate and extended family be allowed to see the children.
Their siblings. Their grandparents. Family members who have not seen them since June 2024.
The Court didn’t deny that request.
It simply ignored it.
There was no ruling.
No discussion.
Nothing.
And that has become a pattern.
Requests involving restoration, enforcement, or meaningful family connection are continuously deferred, reserved, ignored, or delayed until the delay itself becomes the outcome.
So Where Does That Leave Us?
Our final custody trial starts in one month.
And this is the same judge who will oversee that trial.
So how exactly am I supposed to believe meaningful protections for my family are possible when every attempt to enforce existing law has already failed?
What confidence is a parent supposed to have when:
court orders are ignored for over a year;
statutes requiring enforcement are not enforced;
educational rights are withheld;
child support enforcement continues under an order acknowledged to be unlawful;
continuances extend deprivation;
family members are erased from children’s lives;
and even successful hearings result in no meaningful relief.
At some point, you stop feeling like you’re participating in a justice system.
You start feeling like you’re documenting its failure.
This Is Bigger Than My Case
The most concerning part of all of this is that my case is not unique.
I hear from parents across Minnesota constantly.
Different counties. Different judges. Different lawyers.
Same pattern.
Orders without enforcement. Rights without remedies. Children growing up while courts delay.
And eventually, after enough time passes, the system points to the damaged relationship it helped create as proof of why things cannot change.
That is the cycle.
And until Minnesota is willing to confront it honestly, this will continue happening to families across this state.
There’s also a much larger political reality behind all of this that people are afraid to talk about.
This judge was appointed by Governor Tim Walz.
At the same time, the Walz administration is already under immense scrutiny for overseeing and ignoring massive fraud across multiple departments within our state government.
And the reality is, the known fraud and lack of accountability across Minnesota government are deeply intertwined with the failures we are seeing inside our family court system.
Why wouldn’t they be?
If Minnesotans are watching massive failures of oversight occur across multiple state departments under the same administration, why would anyone reasonably believe those same systemic problems do not also exist within family court?
Why would people expect accountability failures, political protection, lack of enforcement, and institutional self-preservation to somehow exist everywhere else—but not inside one of the most powerful and least transparent systems in our state?
And after spending every single day of the 2026 legislative session at the Capitol—without missing one day—sitting through committee hearings and floor sessions in both the House and Senate and building relationships with legislators from across Minnesota, one thing has become very clear to me:
There is strong support for family court reform from one side of the aisle.
The GOP.
And so far, virtually none from the DFL.
I have reached out to Governor Walz’s office countless times.
I stop in his office constantly because I’m physically there every day.
I have also reached out to every member of the DFL legislation.
Nothing.
No interest.
No help.
At the same time, my federal civil rights case is being defended by the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office—an arm of the executive branch under Governor Walz.
And if you’ve been following my writing, then you’ve already seen what the state is willing to do to prevent a fit parent in Minnesota from obtaining any meaningful justice at the federal level.
That fight is still ongoing.
Right now, we are waiting for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule.
This is the system we have in Minnesota.
And right now, that system is controlled entirely by one political movement.
The DFL.
Now let me be clear.
I am not a Trumper.
I do not support the far right.
But I also do not support the far left.
I believe there are good people on both sides of the aisle in this state.
And if you are on the right, continue standing up for parents and children in Minnesota, because people across this state are paying attention.
This is an election year.
Minnesotans are desperate for leaders willing to confront these issues honestly.
And if you are on the left, you need to understand something too:
This is why you are losing your foothold with so many Americans and so many Minnesotans.
You have gone so far to the left that the only response becomes an equal force pulling back the other direction.
Newton’s Third Law exists everywhere—including politics.
Until people understand that the far left can be just as damaging to society as the far right, we will continue tearing ourselves apart.
And after watching this Legislature every single day, I can honestly say the GOP has done a far better job this session putting the DFL on the record for where they stand on the issues many Minnesotans actually care about.
The DFL’s attempt to do the same has largely failed because too often they appear focused on protecting the interests of the one percent while ignoring the concerns of everyone else.
And yes, minority groups and vulnerable populations absolutely deserve protections.
But not at the expense of the other ninety-nine percent of Minnesotans.
We can protect everyone.
We can care about everyone.
But that requires people to stop treating every disagreement like a war.
Most people—regardless of politics—want the same basic things:
Safety. Family. Opportunity. Fairness.
And until we stop tearing each other apart over every issue that divides us, we are never going to fix the systems that are destroying families right in front of us.
Because tomorrow may be too late.
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Across the country, I’ve heard from parents who’ve lost everything—many haven’t seen their children in years. When the system designed to protect families becomes the weapon that destroys them, it’s time for change. We must fix this broken family court system. Until that day, I’ll keep fighting—for our children, for truth, and for justice.
"675 days since my children were kidnapped. This isn't over."
Ryan William Alvar
Parent and Plaintiff
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