Dickson, J.
This appeal challenges summary judgment for claimants establishing title to and use of real property by adverse possession and by prescriptive easement. Finding no genuine issue of material fact, we affirm the trial court.
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We conclude that the homeowners, as the moving party, have established a prima facie case that there is no genuine issue of material fact as to the designated evidence, which establishes by clear and convincing proof that the homeowner’s immediate predecessor in title adversely possessed and obtained fee simple title to the disputed real estate by operation of law prior to the church ever taking title to its real estate. And the church has failed to rebut these assertions. The homeowners are entitled to summary judgment on their claim of adverse possession.
Prescriptive Easement Claim
We likewise agree with the trial court that, as a matter of law, the homeowners possess a prescriptive easement to use the gravel driveway. When Patty’s mother purchased her home in 1972, a detached, west-facing garage sat in the southwestern portion of her yard, adjacent to and opening to the east side of the driveway. The gravel driveway was the only means of access into the garage on the property during the period from at least 1972 until 2003. When Patty and her husband moved in, they tore down the old garage and built a two-car garage closer to their house, on the eastern border of lot 4 and opening to an alley way to the south.
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The church, however, argues in part that the homeowners abandoned any prescriptive easement when they tore down the west-facing garage and replaced it with the south-facing, two-car garage. An easement, whether acquired by prescription or created by express grant or reservation, can be abandoned. Chickamauga, 853 N.E.2d at 154 (citing Seymour Water Co. v. Lebline, 195 Ind. 481, 488–89, 144 N.E. 30, 33 (1924)). Abandonment of a prescriptive easement requires nonuse and intent to abandon. Chickamauga, 853 N.E.2d at 154; Bauer, 617 N.E.2d at 929, cited with approval in Consol. Rail Corp. v. Lewellen, 682 N.E.2d 779, 783 (Ind. 1997). The church has failed to designate evidence of either. Although the easement is no longer necessary for vehicular access into the homeowners’ garage, the homeowners claim possession of an easement by prescription, not an easement by necessity. And there is no dispute that the home-owners continue to use the easement for ingress and egress to their garage. [Footnote omitted.] See Chickamauga, 853 N.E.2d at 154–55 (finding no intent to abandon easement where possessor used access road intermittently after complying with landowner’s request to remove dog kennels and conveyed easement to son, the subsequent landowner). The homeowners have established a prima facie case that there is no genuine issue of material fact as to the designated evidence, which establishes by clear and convincing proof that the homeowners’ immediate predecessor in title obtained a prescriptive easement, and the church has failed to show disputed material facts to the contrary. The homeowners are entitled to summary judgment on their claim of prescriptive easement.
Conclusion
Finding no genuine issue of material fact, we affirm the grant of judgment for the home-owners for both their adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims.
Rush, C.J., and Rucker, David, and Massa, JJ., concur.