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Adverse possession?

The day before buying, the realtor called us to say she’d just discovered that a portion of our driveway was not on our property. This was during the height of Covid and she acted like it was NBD. The gravel driveway is is probably 200 yards up to the house, the adjoining property is unoccupied, used for lumber. We have had to add gravel in several areas to keep it safe to drive on. Recently I pulled up the county property lines online to discover that not only is a great majority of the driveway not on our property, but a good part of the fenced area of our side yard (fence installed by previous owner) and side yard that we use for our garden is on the other property.At some point in the past year, yellow paint has been added to several trees on the opposite side of the drive. While we are very rural, there has been some development in the area and we are starting to worry that we’ll lose access to this driveway, lose a good portion of front yard, etc. Can anyone enlighten us about our situation? Do we just carry on and hold our breath?

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