Opinion ID: 2637937
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Heading: The statutory period

Text: An adverse possession claimant must show that she possessed the property for the statutory period of ten years. [11] Judge Savell found that Green had used the bluff property from 1982 through the summer of 1993, in satisfaction of AS 09.10.030's ten-year possession requirement for adverse possession. Because Green presented the most evidence of consistent use for the period running from early summer of 1983 to early summer of 1993, we base our adverse possession analysis on those ten years. Vezey challenges the evidentiary sufficiency of the superior court's finding that Green used the property during this time; he claims that Green admitted to being absent in 1991 or 1992. At trial, Green did say that she had missed a visit in one year, and hesitated briefly as to whether that year was 1991, 1992, or 1993. However, she concluded that the missed year was 1993, seeming to place it by reference to the more memorable visit of the following year. Art McTaggart also testified that he had worked with Green in 1991, and Green later testified that she had filed an insurance claim following a break-in to the house in 1992. Vezey's own testimony and that of others who visited the bluff in 1993 indicate that this indeed was the year of Green's absence. This evidence supports the conclusion that Green possessed the property at least from early summer of 1983 to the same season in 1993, in fulfillment of the statutory ten-year-period requirement.