Hi @pk ! You're great! I greatly appreciate your post and guidance!
We individually treat our income as our own, but I didn't quite understand the part about "and you don't notify the spouse the nature and amount of the income by the due date for filing the return (including extensions)."
If this "and" were an "or" I'd have a clearer understanding, but it sounds like one would need to split 50-50 unless s/he doesn't notify the spouse of the income by the filing due date? We both know about one another's incomes and agree to both of our incomes are not community property, though California is a community property state. As such, since I can't say I didn't notify my spouse of the income by the return due date, community property laws do apply?
Maybe there isn't a clear-cut answer like I thought there would be. I'm leaning towards the keeping Total column C blank and show Total column B as 100% our own unless recommended this is not correct. Would doing this raise an automatic red flag?
Thank you for being so helpful, but I think I'm a still a bit lost in my confusion.
