Divorce

If your husband has not come to the court for 3 times consecutively thane an ex-partie divorce should be granted.

your lawyer should guide you on this. I am not sure if you can change the judge. But check if you want to goto a different lawyer. Your lawyer should be able to guide you correctly. If not, change the lawyer.

Also, as you have mentioned your husband does not want to live with but at the same time does not want to give you divorce, don't expect any maintenance from him. If you ask for that , he will continue to make you suffer. DEfinitely he will not give you money. You will be wasting your time. .Since you are qualified, he will use that as a reason for not paying you maintenance.

I would suggest you hire a competent lawyer. File for a simple separation/divorce. Dont ask for maintenance. Since you dont have kids , no problem should be there.

Just get a divorce and move on with your life. Take up a job and become independent. Dont waste time. Your husband seems to be a person who plays games. You can never strike a fair deal with people like them

Best of luck

 

Completely agree. Such situation are stressful. Going to court, seeing people with problems and everyone looking at you wondering why your husband is leaving is really depressing. Been there. But you will have to get rid of negative things in life to have positive things to happen. As suggested by @kalpas , talk to your lawyer for change in petition and finalize your divorce. Judges will avoid such cases. Coz though there is provision of maintenance to wife, and people misuse, they delay such cases.