Thanks again for your help. Is there any way to report this to Intuit so they fix it? Prior years have had people report this issue in the forum. I contacted the CA FTB and they said that the form should not have been generated on my return and to contact the software maker (and that 12 was the right exception as you noted). But Inuit doesn't seem to offer that, and apparently does not comb the forum for experts (like you) who reply to questions and acknowledge bugs.
