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Preparing for the Bar Exam

Guide to the Bar Exam
Residence History (Past Addresses)

 

Question 20 in the online application for Character & Fitness asks for past addresses or "residence history." You will need to provide every permanent address or temporary physical address you have resided at for a period of one month or longer for the last ten years, or since age 18, whichever period of time is shorter. 

Do not list a PO Box as a residence. 

Locations of residences will be expected to generally correspond to the locations and dates of the schools and employment you have listed elsewhere in the application.

The online application should look something like below at this point in the application:

 

Tips on How to Locate Past Addresses

 

Unless you lived in the same place for the last decade it can be difficult to remember all of your former addresses.  Below are some resources and tips you can use to help you find them.

To locate old addresses, look up:

  • Shipping Addresses saved in online retailers like Amazon
  • High School and College Transcripts 
  • Utility Providers
  • Tax Returns and Pay Stubs
  • Credit Report.

You can also look at different public record search sites.

  • Lexis Nexis Public Records Search
  • Family Tree Now
LexisNexis Public Records Search

 

LexisNexis Public Records features over 84 billion public records from over 10,000 diverse sources, comprising public, private, regulated, emerging and derived data. Student accounts have access to this record search tool.