I’m currently going through a divorce that’s been going on for 4+ years. We have not lived together for a year and a half. I have filed my taxes separately from my soon to be ex since 2016. I started filing online and turbo tax says that if I file the standard deduction that my husband also has to do the same. It’s a very nasty divorce. I want to file the standard deduction. He will not cooperate with me and tell me which way he is filing. Can I just go ahead and file the standard deduction? What happens if he then files and does the itemized filing? It said that if we do not file the same way there could be a penalty. Who will get penalized? Me? Him??
