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Filing Status Quest

6190cmg — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:35:12 GMT

Massachusetts resident. I have been legally separated for all of 2019. Can I file as single even though divorce wasn't finalized until the end of January 2020?

Re: Filing Status Quest

DeanM15 — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:00:14 GMT

If your legal separation was under a final judgement of the probate court, then yes you can. If it was not, then you cannot.

"For MA you can file as single if, at the end of the taxable year, you were:

Unmarried
Legally separated under a final judgment of the probate court
Widow or widower whose spouse dies before the beginning of the taxable year"

For Federal, the Single filing status is the "status for taxpayers who are unmarried, divorced or legally separated under a divorce or separate maintenance decree governed by state law."

Re: Filing Status Quest

6190cmg — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:28:26 GMT

That's what I thought - thank you!