My wife and I are filing a joint federal return but we are doing separate state returns (got married in October 2017) and my wife then moved from CA to WA.
Regarding the community property rules, my wife worked in CA for 9 months, then she stopped working, we got married and then she moved to WA for the last 1.5 months of the year. Does the non-resident exception apply here since she was not domiciled in WA while she was working. Am I (being the CA non-resident) required to report California income? In other words, when preparing the separate mock federal return, we should only count in her salary or half of the total income?
Also when I paper-file the state MFS return, Turbotax asks me (in the instructions) to attach a copy of my federal return. Which federal return should I attached with the MFS state return, the MFJ federal return (that I actually filed) or the associated mock MFS federal return (that I did not file)?
