Additional info: so my dad died in early Feb this year so Turbo Tax auto fills his bottom-of-1040 signature line with "filing as surviving spouse". During the e-file process, his name does not appear in the fields for requesting a PIN number or for auto fill BD field which certainly makes sense. I've read elsewhere that it's a good idea to mail your taxes and write in 'deceased xx/xx/xxxx date" next to the name at the top of the 1040 instead of e-file. I wouldn't think this would be the cause of the e-file sequence problem but is it possible? Ultimately I may end up printing the forms and mailing as much as I hate to do so....
