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

New Mexico'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 $5,072,429 in New Mexico (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **368,670 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering New Mexico (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 New Mexico (FY2025): Basic Field 2, Agricultural Worker 1, Native American 1** — 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 New Mexico (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 New Mexico (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **New Mexico sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-8)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-8/)
- **New Mexico sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (N.M. Stat. § 41-5-13)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-41/article-5/section-41-5-13/)
- **New Mexico sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-8)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-8/)
- **New Mexico sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-8)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-8/)
- **New Mexico sets a 3 years from death civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (N.M. Stat. § 41-2-2)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-41/article-2/section-41-2-2/)
- **New Mexico sets a 4 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-4)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-4/)
- **New Mexico sets a 4 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-4)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-4/)
- **New Mexico sets a 4 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-4)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-4/)
- **New Mexico sets a 6 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (N.M. Stat. § 37-1-3)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-37/article-1/section-37-1-3/)
- **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/nm.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**New Mexico — 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 — 4 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 5072429 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**New Mexico — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (3): Basic Field — 2; Agricultural Worker — 1; Native American — 1…
**New Mexico — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (4): New Mexico Legal Aid — NM-5 — Basic Field — 3871837 — 326501; New Mexico Legal Aid — NNM-4 — Native American — 700532 — ; DNA-Peoples Legal Services, Inc. — NM-1 — Basic Field — 284496 — 23991…