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[quote="nelsona"]Keep your relationship good and you just might get the place!

Not a tax issue, but you might want to check what rights attach to the previous co-owners (your mom and step). They or their estate may have a stake.[/quote]
Thanks, that about covers it all for now. Keep you sense of ...

[quote="nelsona"]It's not your until she dies or sells it to you. IF you inherit it at that time, then you will file a 3520, if the rules are the same at that time.

You seem a tad overconcerned about "getting" her house, no?[/quote]
It was our childhood summer place when our mother was alive ...

[quote="nelsona"]there is no Cdn inheritance or estate tax. But, as you say, since this would be her principal residence, her death would not trigger any capital gains for the estate.
BC does have probate fees.[/quote]
Will we need to file Form 3520 with the IRS at the time of my father's death ...

[quote="nelsona"]by married I mean either legal or common law.[/quote]
They reside in BC.
So the residence and land would go to my father's "wife" and then when she passes, the value at her death is "inherited" by us, "children"?
No Canadian Estate Tax because it is now her residence, unti lher ...

[quote="nelsona"]In canada his common law wife IS his wife, and is allowed certain things regardless of his will.

Is your father still a US citizen?[/quote]
NO, thank your for your prompt reply

My father, now a Canadian citizen, is reviewing his will and asked if there were any tax problems for my 2 sisters and I (all US citizens) inheriting his primary residence Canadian property (or the sale value of it) after his death.

Upon his death his Canadian "common law wife", if there is such a ...