Trying To Finalize Divorce

* edit: I am in Louisiana

Hi there! I filed for divorce in fall of last year. My spouse was abusive, but I chose to file no-fault. We had trouble serving him as he was uncooperative, but he was served with the petition earlier this year. My lawyer has not been updating me on how the process is going or when things could be filed or finalized. They also missed our hearing for the petition hearing.

Our divorce was eligible to be finalized in the summer, but when I reached out to my attorney a month or so later about the finalization, nothing had been filed or prepared.

My lawyer has been very slow to respond to emails, often taking weeks to a month and several attempts of me reaching out to get a response. When we met to finalize the divorce in September, we discussed the fact that he could not be located. The plan was to have him served and hire a curator if he could not be located. We do not have a place of employment, phone number, or address for him.

In November, I reached out for an update on the process to find out that we had a hearing that week but my attorney did not follow through to have him served. They rescheduled the hearing and attempted to have him served, but he was unable to be served.

At this point, we will not be able to have him served before the rescheduled hearing.

I have no idea what is going on and my attorney is not following through with what we have planned. It has been 2.5 months since we scheduled to finalize, and my attorney's office hasn't even tried to contact him. So my question is - is this a normal process? Everyone I've spoken to has said this would not be a normal experience but I'd like to get some advice before anything else.

**edit 2: I forgot to add this is uncontested with no kids, no debt, no community property, and equal income so no spousal support requests or anything else. Just a no-fault, each take what they came into the marriage with, divorce.