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Go and ask an attorney. S/he will tell you the same thing. A judge won't allow you to sign for your wife in the divorce, even with a power of attorney.
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Why should I believe an attorney, when s/he has everything to lose and nothing to gain, if someone is "pro-se" instead of employing his services? What is the difference between being pro-se and authorizing someone else to represent you, as long as he doesn't get paid? Go look at Nolo.com if you don't believe that this happens all of the time.

The idea is to dismiss all greedy lawyers, and their behaviour which relentlessly attempts to pit the parties in any legal action against each other, when all the parties really want is simply to agree to a settlement ON THEIR OWN TERMS and without getting third parties, WITH A VESTED INTEREST IN CREATING AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM, involved. NO ONE has the right to insist that anyone must disclose to the world everything that they have before they may agree to make, or to mutually rescind, any contract. Any fool who maintains that the state has the right to invade individual privacy in this way has my official permission to go to blazes.

If not myself, therefore, why not someone else to do this for her, WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY FINANCIAL INTEREST in the matter, as all lawyers MUST? I can think of a number of business associates and family friends who would probably be happy to be her attorney-in-fact, proceed as I have described, and thereby help us both. The procedure that they would follow is clearly spelled out, in detail, in any of the "Do-it yourself" no-fault, Default Divorce manuals.

Unless you have some citations to offer, I believe I have heard about enough on this subject from you, jada, for now. Unless someone more authoritative is willing to contribute something here I will do a little more research, myself, and then will most likely proceed.