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Neighbor's Backyard Fence Cuts Off A Corner Of My Property (alabama)

Living in northern Alabama. I bought my house a little over a year ago. The house was built just over a decade ago.
Our back yard fences run ~2 feet inside of and parallel our property lines.
Previous owners of our house informed me that a few years ago, the neighbor put up a back yard fence that runs from the side of their house, but connected it directly to our fence, perpendicularly. Basically, their back yard fence has about 2 feet that is on my property and also cuts off my access to that back sliver/rectangle/corner of my property.
Granted, I don't really care that I can't access that little sliver anyways, but I don't ever want it to come into question down the road whether or not that is my property just because they were negligent or lazy in building their fence. Especially since technically, I'm the one paying the tax on that bit of land.
I also have no clue what happens if the neighbor was ever to hurt themselves on "my property" in that little back corner.

Now that being said, I haven't talked to them about this yet, and they may not even realize the issue. I also don't want to sue them or start off on the wrong foot because they've been nice so far and I don't want to start a neighbor war since I will have to live next to them indefinitely.

What I'd like to figure out is, do I need to worry about adverse takeover at some point?
If so, are there ways I can nicely go about informing them of it and also getting some form of legal acknowledgement that that is my property without making them take down the fence, paying a bunch of money to have a surveyor come out to prove it is mine, or spending money on hiring a lawyer; but that will also prevent any possibility of them ever being able to make a claim on that piece of property?
Like, could I get them to sign a paper that says that they are aware they built on my land, and I am allowing them to use it, but it is my property and they make no claims to it?

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Neighbor's Backyard Fence Cuts Off A Corner Of My Property (alabama)

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