My question involves real estate located in the State of: Georgia
We and our neighbor bought our adjacent properties in the same year. Though the combined acreage of the two properties is something like 20 acres, there are the two houses, relatively close together; the story is that the original owners built a house for themselves and an adult child. We share a private way to access our properties, most of which travels over a corporation's land. Toward the end of the private way, as it traverses our property, it forks into two branches that then goes on to traverse his property.
More than a few years ago, our neighbor wanted to put gates up to restrict access to his property; he leases land on the other side of his property and didn't want the lessor's employees going over his land when he was not at home. Due to the weird nature of the property lines (our property line is practically a stone's throw from his porch!), the "logical and visually appropriate" (my term) place for the gates was just as the drive branches, which is squarely on our property. Our neighbor asked my husband if it'd be okay for him to put his gates on our land, and my husband promptly said it'd be okay. The plan was that 'someday' we'd get the slice of land surveyed and work out some kind of deal to transfer ownership; however, in the intervening years, between illness, employment issues, parental illness/death, and the fact that the budget always had other priorities beyond paying a surveyor, 'someday' has yet to arrive.
The neighbor has an electric gate and a manual gate; we have a key to the manual gate but because of the electric gate, we don't have the ability to open that gate. He's got dogs (as do we) and has fencing run (pasture-type wireweld) from the gate, again, still over our property.
We've been friends with our neighbor from the get-go; however, in recent years I've seen enough of his dealings with other people to know he can be a real tenacious a--hole when it suits him. Hopefully it would never come to that; however, I am starting to wonder whether we might be jeopardizing our legal rights to our land by having this situation as it is. Is there any chance that adverse possession could be a problem in our future? I just want to avert any issues before they arise.
Thanks in advance for your knowledge!

