Hi, I use Pro Series Prof. my client lives in CA and wants to file MFS. It will be my first time. I cant really wrap my mind around the community property situation. I dont have any education or training on MFS for Comm. Prop. I tried doing a test in the software to play with it and see how it works.. and i read lots and lots of post on here regarding the situation and i see alot of people have issues with it. I also read pub 555 three times. On my test account i put Taxpayer has 20,000 of income and spouse has 40,000 of income on 8958 and noticed that didnt change the numbers on the return. So i pulled up the "Other Income Statement" Line 13 and seen a positive community property adj and a negative comm prop adj. I entered in the amounts there and same thing happens.. nothing the spouses income doesnt show up anywhere on the return. I also don't understand how the tax works.. so if taxpayer makes 20k..and spouse makes 40k.. so total community property income is 60,000. If I take 50% of that i get 30,000. so do i have taxpayer pay tax on her 20,000 plus tax on the 30,000 for her total income to be $50,000? and her spouse what do i put on his..he made 40k..but if i add 50% comm income that brings him to 70,000? Im so so confused and just wondering if i should just refer the client to someone else. I want to learn but not sure where to go to learn. Also what about federal tax withheld do i need to do 50% of that too? Im so lost and wondering how everyone else learned how to do MFS returns I feel so embarrassed asking this question.