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Legal wellness is the practice of understanding, monitoring, and improving the public records that can affect your employment, housing, finances, and other opportunities. Why it matters, and how to take control of your record before it affects your future.

You know your credit score — but do you know the health of your public records? Here’s what a Legal Wellness Score is, why it matters, and how to check yours free in about 60 seconds.

Have you ever wondered whether the information in your background check is actually accurate? Mistakes happen more often than most people realize — outdated information, records that belong to someone else, or information that should no longer appear at all.

Background checks play a role in many of life’s biggest moments — a job, an apartment, a professional license, volunteering. If you have ever wondered how to see what others see about you, the answer is not as straightforward as it seems.

If you have ever applied for a job, rented an apartment, applied for a loan, or bought insurance, someone looked at information about you before deciding. The FCRA is the federal law meant to keep those reports accurate, fair and private.

A man lost his job over someone else’s criminal record showing up in his background check. How these errors happen, and how to catch and fix them.

Explore what appears on background checks, from criminal records to debt lawsuits and identity errors, so you can understand your legal record before employers or landlords run a check.