TomD8
Level 15

State tax filing

California requires that you use the same filing status on your CA return that you use on your federal return.  Assuming that you file MFJ on your federal return, you would file California Form 540NR (the form for CA non-residents and part-year residents), using filing status MFJ.  Since you were never a CA resident, CA will not tax your OR-source income.  (That income, of course, is taxable by OR.)

(Note: California is a community property state.  Any income your husband earned after becoming married and while still domiciled in CA , would be considered community property income and thus split equally between the two spouses.  Therefore you might technically have some CA-source income even though you never lived or worked in CA.)

**Answers are correct to the best of my ability but do not constitute tax or legal advice.