Thanks for the response TomD8, you bring up a great point about community property state.
I remembers there were two caveats to filing differently than federal returns for CA.
1) One spouse is active military or
2) One spouse was a nonresident for the entire year and had no income
from California sources during the tax year.
The second exception above does not apply if the spouse with California source income is domiciled in a community property state, unless the income is separate income.
So that would mean I may have community income when my husband worked in CA from the time we were married to the time he quit his job (March to June 2017)?
And I’m unclear if we have separate incomes as defined by CA
