<prompt> Human: So, Im getting married in the fall to someone with a lot more money than I have. Im a typical grad student, make about 25,000 a year. Have about 2-3 grand in savings at any given moment. No debt. My partner makes about 50-60 a year half his money comes from investments so it varies from year to year and he also has massive savings accounts and other investments not quite sure how much, but I think its close to a million. No debt duh. He always has to pay whenever taxes are due. I always get back almost everything I paid woot! 1400!!. Since were getting married in October, does it make sense next year to file separately? Do we have to file jointly? My reasoning is that we lived apart for almost the whole year, it seems silly to have to file jointly. Also, I know nothing about taxes, as is probably evident now.edit Thanks everyone! I absolutely had forgotten that filing jointly is a such big benefit er duh much? Im in the humanities, thats my only excuse. Ill show myself to the door.  <response>: You can run your taxes both ways in TurboTax, but I would surprised if married filing separate is better than joint. Our tax system is setup in a lot of ways for the traditional one high income, one low or no income couple. Once youre married, you dont have the option of filing single. 