Hi,
My mom has green card and lives in California. My dad is a nonresident alien lives abroad. They both have foreign income (social security and bank saving interests) and don't have any US income. My mom files her tax "Married filing separately". As I understand, for her federal return, she can allocate 100% her income to herself. However, for her California return, I have some questions:
1. Can she still allocate all her income to herself or she has to allocate 50% to my dad?
2. If she must allocate 50% to my dad, my dad will have to file CA 540NR? So my mom would report half of her income on CA return and my dad would report the other half?
3. Does either of their CA return needs to include my dad's income?
Thanks in advance!
