Thank you both for the responses. I don't know why she hasn't gone to a shelter yet. As for her getting a job, the only reason she hasn't yet, is she has one home with her, and no one to watch the child. And the children are getting extremely close to malnutrition. Losing weight, complaining of stomach pains.
I will recommend the shelter to her, and see what she says.
And as towards getting the divorce going, she's been trying using help from facilitators at the local family law center, but because of the money problem, she hasn't been able to find a lawyer that would be willing to fold the retainer into the final pay.

