# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for Arkansas (FY2025) — context brief

Arkansas's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **2 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $5,091,720 in Arkansas (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **429,371 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Arkansas (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC grant counts by service-area type in Arkansas (FY2025): Basic Field 2** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in Arkansas (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for Arkansas (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **Arkansas sets a 1 year (slander) / 3 years (libel) civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Ark. Code § 16-56-104)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-104/)
- **Arkansas sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Ark. Code § 16-114-203)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-114/section-16-114-203/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Ark. Code § 16-56-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-105/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years from discovery civil statute of limitations for fraud (Ark. Code § 16-56-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-105/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Ark. Code § 16-56-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-105/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (Ark. Code § 16-116-103)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-116/section-16-116-103/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Ark. Code § 16-56-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-105/)
- **Arkansas sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Ark. Code § 16-62-102)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-62/section-16-62-102/)
- **Arkansas sets a 5 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Ark. Code § 16-56-111)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-16/subtitle-5/chapter-56/subchapter-1/section-16-56-111/)
- **Why these statute-of-limitations periods are NOT your deadline (the L5 boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the statutes above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/ar.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Arkansas — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 2 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 2 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 5091720 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Arkansas — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (1): Basic Field — 2…
**Arkansas — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (2): Center for Arkansas Legal Services — AR-7 — Basic Field — 3059342 — 257986; Legal Aid of Arkansas, Inc. — AR-6 — Basic Field — 2032378 — 171385…