How do I move the divorce process along?

My soon to be ex husband is a former judge in my area. Because of this, I have not been able to obtain local representation and hiring someone out of town is cost prohibitive. I am navigating this process on my own. We have been separated the requisite amount of time and a divorce was filed by him. There were some issues that had to be settled, but those are done and the lawsuit that was filed has been dropped. The question I have now is, what is next? He refuses to speak to me and the case is just sitting. I don’t know what else, if anything, I need to do. Once before, I called the courthouse and had the case calendared to address my lawsuit. My husband did not show and the sitting judge said they couldn’t hear the case because of his relationship with my husband. I’m afraid to try and calendar the case again just to have a repeat circumstance. Any help is appreciated. What do I do now?