Can anyone answer question about Alabama divorce laws?

September of 2008, I left an abusive alcoholic husband. I moved out of our family home because I knew he would not leave and I was afraid of him. I tried to get him to agree to a fair divorce without lawyers involvement because of the money, but he fought me at every turn. So, I finally I had a legal secretary, who was a friend of mine, draw up the divorce in June of 2009 (almost a year after I left him). I filed it, and they tried to serve him for 30 days. He was a police officer at one time, then worked as a legal investigator for a large law firm, now he calls himself a private investigator - so I knew he was avoiding service. I eventually had to threaten to have him served at his girlfriend's house. He went and picked up the papers. He refused to sign and waited until the deadline for a response to file his "answer". Basically, saying that since I left him, I get nothing.

I took out a loan and hired an attorney. She asked for discovery. He has just refused to answer it. We've filed a motion to compel. He has refused to do anything about it. He has told the court that he didn't have an attorney. So the court let him postpone it. Now, it is July, 2010 - he is still filing motions to have it postponed - this time his reason was that he "just now got an attorney". The hearing for the motions is at the end of July. Just for the motions. At this rate, I'll be using a walker before I can divorce this man. Is there anything I can do legally to speed this up. I cannot believe the judge would sign off on all these postponements, if he just looked at the file, he'd see that my "husband" knows just enough about the law to be dangerous and this is all bull. I've spent money I don't have on filing motions, attorney fees, filing fees, etc. I'm just tired. What can I do?