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

Virginia'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:

- **6 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $10,250,486 in Virginia (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **864,396 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Virginia (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 Virginia (FY2025): Basic Field 6, Agricultural Worker 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 Virginia (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 Virginia (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **Virginia sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Va. Code § 8.01-247.1)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-247.1/)
- **Virginia sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Va. Code § 8.01-243(A))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/)
- **Virginia sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Va. Code § 8.01-243(A) & (C))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/)
- **Virginia sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Va. Code § 8.01-243(A))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/)
- **Virginia sets a 2 years (injury) / 5 years (property) civil statute of limitations for product liability (Va. Code § 8.01-243)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/)
- **Virginia sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Va. Code § 8.01-244)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-244/)
- **Virginia sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Va. Code § 8.01-246(4))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-246/)
- **Virginia sets a 5 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Va. Code § 8.01-246(2))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-246/)
- **Virginia sets a 5 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Va. Code § 8.01-243(B))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/)
- **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/va.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Virginia — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 6 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 7 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 10250486 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Virginia — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (2): Basic Field — 6; Agricultural Worker — 1…
**Virginia — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (7): Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Inc. — VA-20 — Basic Field — 2250194 — 189753; Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia — VA-16 — Basic Field — 2165801 — 182636; Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. — VA-18 — Basic Field — 1788548 — 150823…