I'm in exactly the same position. Divorced without a property settlement. Who on earth in the legal world comes up with these rules?!?!
XH is dragging his heels getting the settlement done and squared away. This, from the man who raced at breakneck speed to get me out of his life. He literally could not wait to erase me from his life - and now look where we are.
I sometimes wonder if he really is in MLC, so it's things like this that signpost it for me. He doesn't want me, but he doesn't seem to want to let me move out from what he thinks is his control. I guess all we can do is stir things up from time to time and hope like mad we don't unleash a hornet's nest.