Still Married, but seperated, filing taxes?

Shazzers - if you were LEGALLY separated as of 12/31/08, the IRS considers you to be separated for the entire tax year, regardless of how long you were separated. (Had to do my taxes this way myself once.)

I'll take a look at what the IRS says about filing joint when separated and see what happens...be right back..stand by...

Here's some info on the filing statuses that might help you out:



For more info, go to IRS.gov and look for Publication #504 "For Divorced and Separated Individuals"- here's a link to it:

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p504/index.html

Thank you Suebee, that answers my question. I appreciate the time you took to look into this for me. God bless you.

Not a problem at all, Shazzers - best of luck to you! Come back if you have any questions.