Virtually all the income is community income. CA requires that the federal return be included with the state return. Since the mock married-filing-separate return is not a real return, doesn't that mean I have to include the genuine married-filing-jointly return with the state return? True that most entries on the genuine federal return will be twice as large as the left column of the CA adjustments form because of the split in community income. I can see a value to also including the mock married-filing-separate return as a guide to the origin of the figures in the CA return. Thanks.
