Do I need to file community property from my time living in Arizona if I was being paid in Alabama?

[krg07e]

I was married in July 2023 in Arizona. I moved from Arizona to Alabama in September 2023. My pay began coming from Alabama before being married.  Do I need to file my wages as community property?

[BillM223]

Community property is not a status for filing but a way to determine how to distribute income between the spouses.

Every community property state has somewhat different laws.

But it is likely that all of them would say that you do not need to split the income you earned before you got married. Generally, it is everything that each of you bring to the community during the marriage that get shared.