Your community property income will be your normal income for the year plus or minus an adjustment for your community property income. The adjustment would typically only apply to the income during the time you were married. So, add both of your incomes together for the time you were married and divide that by two. That would be your community property income.
Add your income received up until you got married to your community property income and that will be the income that should show on your tax return. In TurboTax, you will be asked to add or subtract an amount to your income that you reported to bring your total to the community property income for the year.
For instance, if you earned $5,000 and your spouse earned $10,000 during the time you were married, then your community income would be $7,500 (half of the total.) If you made $50,000 up until you got married, your total reportable income would be $57,500 ($50,000 plus $7,500.) You would have reported $55,000 when you entered you income in TurboTax, so your addition as requested in TurboTax would be $2,500.
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