Advice regarding a property my non US citizen parents bought - mom just passed away.

[Michael Mendoza]

Hi BP members,

I am reaching out to ask your advice on how to go about this.

I am a Filipino permanently residing here in Atlanta, US. I am a BP follower and a real estate investor as well.  My mom recently passed away and we are reviewing her estate in the Philippines.  She and my step father bought an undeveloped land (Roosevelt California) - residential zone back in 1995-1996 I think from a realty broker that time. They were just visiting the US and not a US citizen.  They bought this with unclear goal and was just plainly seeing this as a future investment for us.  fast forward to 2000s my mom asked me to pay the property taxes so Ive been paying it since then.  She passed away this year. My step father who was also part of the deal is currently in the Philippines.  I reviewed the contract deed or deed of sale and its under a CLT corporation , then my parents name.  I looked up the LA county and it has both my parents name and this corporation. 

I wanted to ask the community how do i go about this.  I was hoping to get it transferred to me.  I asked the LA county assessor and they sent me forms but i am not sure if they account for the fact that my parents were not US citizen and im the only one here in the US.  Where should I start? is there a path to transferring this to my name? what resources I need now that my mom passed away. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Mike