Deceased Home Owner Property with Squatter living in it

[Nixon Vayupak]

Need some input from my fellow BP friends.  In my old neighborhood, I was told that the original owner of a small house passed away many years ago. The person has no living relative per neighbor, since they were close friends. So the house was abandon for just less than a year and then a squatter moved in.  How do we know it was a squatter?  Because he told the neighbor straight forward.  I did run a title search and did find that the deceased owner is still on the title.  Question, is how can one move in legally and take over the property and evict the squatter.  Note, the property tax has been paid by the squatter which is $400 a year.