Presuming not a community property state and only one of you filed BK?
The part that can be shown relevant to the non-BK spouses earnings and overpayment would be exempt from claim. (If that person didn't contribute to the overpaid withholding, they probably wouldn't be deemed entitled to a refund).
The available filing statuses for federal income tax returns are: Single Married Filing Jointly Head of Household Married Filing Separately Qualifying Widow or Widower No, there is no filing status for Single Filing Jointly.
Yes, if your are married filing jointly. No if your are married filing seperatly.
No, you can file married filing jointly or you can file married filing separately
There are additions to tax benefits to filing your taxes as married filing jointly in most cases, the deductible is greater than it would be individually and there are often additional tax credits to married filers.
The advantage of married filing jointly is that your tax may be lower than your combined tax for other filing statuses. Another advantage would be your standard deduction, if you do not itemize, my be higher and you qualify for tax benefits that do not apply to married filing separate.
$24,800
yes.
Yes, one return two people.
Married filing Jointly
IF you are NOT LEGALLY separated in the state that you are a a resident of on the last day of the year. Your filing status would be married filing joint or on a separate 1040 federal income tax return MARRIED FILING SEPARATE.
$12,176
Not as long as you are still legally married on the last day of the year. Married filing jointly or Married filing separately. NOT as a single taxpayer.