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

South Carolina'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:

- **1 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $8,618,805 in South Carolina (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **726,800 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering South Carolina (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 South Carolina (FY2025): Agricultural Worker 1, Basic Field 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 South Carolina (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 South Carolina (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **South Carolina sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-550(1))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(1))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(1))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(7))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years (max 6 from occurrence) civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-545)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(5))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(5))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(4))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **South Carolina sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530(6))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t15c003.php)
- **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/sc.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**South Carolina — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 1 — 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) — 8618805 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**South Carolina — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (2): Agricultural Worker — 1; Basic Field — 1…
**South Carolina — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (2): South Carolina Legal Services, Inc. — SC-8 — Basic Field — 8299079 — 699838; South Carolina Legal Services, Inc. — MSC — Agricultural Worker — 319726 — 26962…