State tax filing

When you do a part year return, you select the amount of income earned in that state. None of his income would be allocated to VA since he did not earn money there. When you do the VA part year return, after passing the Income section, the program asks about income for part-year residents. Enter only VA income into this area that has several screens.

You can do a mock federal and file VA as MFS. That is allowed, it just sounds much more difficult.