Glad you got to the bottom of things. That is why it is essential to either be *very* educated about divorce in your state or hand it all over to an attny who is.
In most states a hearing is not the first step anyhow. She would need to file PROPERLY, have you served, wait the allotted time frame for you to respond and the attnys would start their business. If nothing pans out that way there is usually a mandatory pre-trial hearing (conference) of some sort that is still fairly informal.
No matter what the laws of your state might be, the WAS that aims for the "quick and easy" divorce usually finds out the hard (and costly way) that no such thing exists.
