If you file Married Filing Jointly, you need to include Form 8379, Injured Spouse
Form so that the IRS does not use
your refund towards your Husband's back child support. By filing this
form, your portion of the refund will not be used to pay the back child support.
You are considered the "Injured Spouse" because you are not liable for your Husband's
back child support.
Please follow these
instructions to complete Form 8379 in TurboTax:
- Login to
your TurboTax Account
- Select
"Take Me To My Return"
- Click
"Search" in the upper right corner,
then type "Injured Spouse" in
the Search Box
- When the
results populate, click the "Jump to Link"
- Click
"Yes" where it asks "Do you want to claim innocent or injured spouse
relief?"
- From here
TurboTax will walk you through preparing an Injured Spouse Form 8379
