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

Kentucky'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:

- **4 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $8,229,745 in Kentucky (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **693,991 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Kentucky (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 Kentucky (FY2025): Basic Field 4** — 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 Kentucky (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 Kentucky (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **Kentucky sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.140(1)(d))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49037)
- **Kentucky sets a 1 year (5-year repose) civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.140(1)(e))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49037)
- **Kentucky sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.140(1)(a))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49037)
- **Kentucky sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for product liability (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.140(1)(a))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49037)
- **Kentucky sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.180)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=39261)
- **Kentucky sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.125)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=39261)
- **Kentucky sets a 5 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.120(1))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=44670)
- **Kentucky sets a 5 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.120(11))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=44670)
- **Kentucky sets a 10 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Ky. Rev. Stat. § 413.160)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=43544)
- **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/ky.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Kentucky — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 4 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 4 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 8229745 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Kentucky — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (1): Basic Field — 4…
**Kentucky — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (4): Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky — KY-5 — Basic Field — 2282338 — 192463; Legal Aid Society — KY-2 — Basic Field — 2166654 — 182708; Legal Aid of the Bluegrass — KY-10 — Basic Field — 2039664 — 171999…