I have a similar question. I am a resident of Colorado, my husband is a resident of Maine, and we were stationed in California for part of the year and overseas part of the year. I know I can change my residency to his but want to file CO taxes to maintain my residency status for tuition purposes. I have W2s from the civilian economy from California from when we were there, and from the US government from when we were overseas. I am unclear if the best option is to file married jointly for federal return, and separate for state. I know that we cannot claim some of the significant education tax credits if we file married separately but ideally don't need to pay 3 state returns. When I go through the turbotax prompts in "other state income" in our joint return I am only given the option to select other states my husband was stationed in. I have no option to select other state income like I am in a mock married filing separate return I started, or have seen before filing single.
