Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan

HELP! My sister is too afraid to ask for help.So I am doing it for her! Her husband of 6 years now is making life very difficult for her and their 2 children ages 4 and 1years old. Things have been rough. She has been there for him through a drug problem, self esteem issues, him being fired and sued. All in the last 6 years. The latest is, he has a felony on his record now and was fired from his job. Went almost a year with no job. So all the bills feel on just her paycheck. She has been the sole bread winner for the last year. She found out he was cheating on her and she even took him back due to emotional trauma it might have caused the kids. She signed enlistment papers a couple of months ago for active Army. She leaves in May, in order to make family life better.Over the last week, he hit her so she hit him back. Come to find out their oldest seen it. He has had the other woman at their house with the children there - even overnight, for my sister to find out when she returned home from work.

Now he is stating that when she leaves for boot camp that he is going to press charges of abandonment against her, take the kids to Wisconsin and she will never see them again. He has her convinced that if she tries to get an extension or ask the army for help that she will go to prison and he will get the kids. Or that she will then not have any job at all because the military wont take a single parent and her job that she is at now has already made arrangements for her departure, so she will be jobless. So by default he will get the kids anyways because he now has a job. What can she do? I am feeling like she is between a rock and a hard place. She has tried so hard to keep the family together and here he is tearing everything apart!

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