Need Help, married but seperated and filing jointly.

[tiredmom]

How do you figure income in this situation? Any help is greatly appreciated.




Jennifer

[justbroke]

If you read the forms, you'll see that you include ALL income. You then get to take a marital deduction if the non-filing spouse has "personal" debts that are paid from that spouse's income. By "personal" I mean that it is not a joint creditor. If you're going to do this type of filing, I'd make sure I had a really good bankruptcy attorney that understands the implication of this type of filing.

Be forewarned, that if there is any property, and, regardless of whether you're in a community property state or not, this could complicate such a filing.