I can't tell if this is a Drake issue or if it affects all software vendors.
First year 1040 client. Has an apostrophe in their last name. e.g. "O'Connor"
Drake throws an efile error. Stating that only an ampersand, hypen or less than symbol (huh?) are valid characters in an individual's name. I call Drake, they tell me that this is a recent change (October 2021?) by the IRS to 1040 name control. Which suggests it affects all software vendors this year. I can't find anything online.
It appears the client's prior firm used software that allowed an apostrophe. But I wonder if it merely appeared for presentational purposes and was not in the efile schema.
Has anyone else encountered this?