[This assumes that the question is about calculating ability to pay child support.] It's worth a try, especially if the disabled spouse has extraordinarily high medical expenses.
You can...and it's a double exemption most of the time.
Not as a dependent on the married filing joint income tax return. You will each get one exemption on the MFJ income tax return for a total of 2 exemptions.
Not unless you are disabled and your spouse is a caregiver.
Spousal support can be granted during divorce proceedings in a court of law. Spousal support is often issued to the spouse either not working, or the spouse working the least amount and is dependent upon the other for basic needs such as food, shelter, and vehicle expenses.
The spouse, the children, and any covered adult dependent.
You may never claim your spouse as a dependent. You may, however, claim a standard exemption for your spouse if she does not have to file and you are not filing jointly (and as long as no one else is claiming her as a dependent).
If you are disabled and your spouse left he can not be arrested for abandonment. Abandonment is only considered a crime when children under the state approved age limit have been abandoned.
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It is considered very much in the state of California.
No. If you're Married Filing Jointly, then you're allowed one personal exemption for you and one exemption for your husband. You can't claim your spouse as a dependent. Even if you're working and your spouse isn't, you can't claim your spouse as a dependent because you're allowed to claim two personal exemptions total for the two of you as a married couple filing jointly.
If spouse is ordered to pay support by a court, until another court changes that, you cannot "protect" the spouse.
That is entirely dependent on company policy.