No stay on proceedings obtained due to demise of advocate, what to do?

Hello Experts, My wife filed 498a in Bangalore and then after 2 months filed DV and other cases at her native place in Tamil Nadu. I then applied for a Cr. Transfer petition in the Hon'ble Supreme Court in APRIL 2015.The wife side did not file their response and continued taking time for a year (don't know how SC registry can give so much time) and finally did not file their response. The advocate from TN deceived us and finally I had to get another advocate to get a hearing and was disposed off only in JAN 2017. Now that I could not even get a stay due to the deceit of my first advocate, will the time spent in Hon'ble SC considered as default STAY as it is the highest court of the land or I have to pay the interim maintenance for the whole period if ordered by the lower court. How can I get over this and how can I convince the lower court that the delay was due to the respondent taking a very long time to file their reply yet not filing it and deceit of my first advocate.