Or the neighbor might just choose to ignore it (but future purchasers of his land may not, which is why a boundary line amendment or "quiet title" action may be in your best interests, despite the costs. Now, you still want to avoid litigation with a neighbor to establish this, so you could approach the neighbor with the issue and offer to do a boundary line amendment of your deeds if the amount of land lost is slight and the neighbor agrees that moving the fence would be costly and unreasonable (as would a lawsuit). The period in Washington State is 10 years, so if you can establish the fence was there for over ten years you can establish adverse possession. There is a general common law (based on England's ancient court systems) theory which has been codified by most if not all US state Legislatures called "adverse possession", which would allow title to property to change based on "squatters rights" if the period of occupation exceeds the statutory period, and the occupancy would or should have been noticed by the owner and was not with his permission.
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