unablezhy
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Married living and working in different state

I am living and working in CA and my wife is living and working in AZ.

 

We got married last year and looking for filing options. Because I earned much more than my wife hence filing federal jointly would yield in tax benefit. I do have couple of questions below:

 

1. Can we file federal together and state separately?

2. I am reading this article from turbotax and seems to be straightforward. However I see both CA and AZ are common property state, how does the common income apply to our situation?