Hello,
my wife and I separated in April of 2010 and have been living in separate parts of the house since. During this time my wife had been exploring work opportunities at home that could allow her to remain at home after divorce. This was not successful and she has just started back to working full time a couple of weeks ago. We have discussed our separation agreement and custody arrangements (plan to do a 50/50 split custody) but have not formally split our finances or discussed our situations with lawyers. We have three young children.
Does anyone have any advice regarding how we go about completing our income tax return for last year? I assume that we check off "Separated" but given that we have not formally separated our finances I'm confused how we go from there. There was not any formal spousal support however we both had equal access to our family income which happend to be my income. If someone could point me in the right direction for some reference material with CRA or other that would be great.
Thank-you very much,
my wife and I separated in April of 2010 and have been living in separate parts of the house since. During this time my wife had been exploring work opportunities at home that could allow her to remain at home after divorce. This was not successful and she has just started back to working full time a couple of weeks ago. We have discussed our separation agreement and custody arrangements (plan to do a 50/50 split custody) but have not formally split our finances or discussed our situations with lawyers. We have three young children.
Does anyone have any advice regarding how we go about completing our income tax return for last year? I assume that we check off "Separated" but given that we have not formally separated our finances I'm confused how we go from there. There was not any formal spousal support however we both had equal access to our family income which happend to be my income. If someone could point me in the right direction for some reference material with CRA or other that would be great.
Thank-you very much,
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