Thank you for your response. My fact pattern is slightly different than yours. I have a Court Appointed Personal Representative and the IRS Form 1310 instructions "Who Must File" specifically exclude the filing of Form 1310 if "you are a personal representative and a court certificate showing your appointment is attached to the return". Accordingly, one would think I only need to attach a copy of the Court Certificate to the Form 1040 as a pdf attachment and e-file the Form 1040. Simple right?

No. The problem is with the Proseries Software. Unless you check the Boxes as you suggested the software creates an Error Message in the 1040 Info Worksheet (telling you to paper file the Form 1040) and preventing the e-filing of the Form 1040. In addition the Form 1310 continues to print along with the other Form 1040 Schedules which creates a problem because the Form 1310 is a paper only filed Form and is to be filed separately from the Form 1040.

My proposed work around is to 1) attach a pdf copy of the Court Certificate to the Form 1040; 2) X the Form 1310 boxes as you suggested (even though the information is not completely correct) because it is the only way to remove the 1040 Info Worksheet Error Message and hopefully permit the e-filing of the Form 1040 and 3) change the Form 1310 classification in the Global Printing Option, Filing Copy Column, of the Forms and Worksheets from “If Required to Never,” in the hope that doing the above 3 changes will clear the Intuit and IRS  accuracy acceptance screens.

I don’t know if my plan will work but paper filing any return is this Covid work environment is a last resort. For a variety of other reasons this Personal Representative had to paper file in Oct 2020 the decedent’s 2019 return and is still waiting for the decedent’s 2019 Form 1040 to be processed and the refund. I’m trying to prevent this from happing again.

Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.