Type krhlaw.com into a browser and you get sent to two different places. The main domain now routes visitors separately toward attorney Kevin Hand at one site and attorney Mel Kardos at another. That is the first thing a prospective client needs to understand before reading anything else about Kardos, Rickles & Hand. The partnership behind the name appears to have split or restructured, so the entry in this listing points to a firm whose original three-name front door no longer leads to one office.

If you found Kardos, Rickles & Hand because a friend mentioned the name years ago, or because a search for Bucks County divorce help surfaced it, the brand you remember is not quite the brand that exists today. The work, the people, and the phone number still trace back to real practitioners, but they are now spread across separate websites. None of that erases the firm's history. It does mean the path from the listing to an actual lawyer takes one extra step.

Kardos, Rickles & Hand dates to 1981 and built its practice in Newtown, Pennsylvania, at 626 South State Street, with additional offices in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey. The reach covers Bucks County, Montgomery County, Mercer County, and the surrounding stretch of both states. That cross-state footprint is genuinely useful for the kind of client who lives on one side of the Delaware River and has a legal matter on the other, which happens constantly in this corner of the country.

Practice areas and depth

Family law and divorce sit at the center of what Kardos, Rickles & Hand handles. The site names contested and uncontested divorce, fault-based and no-fault routes, collaborative divorce, child custody and support, spousal support and alimony, equitable distribution of property, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, adoption, and grandparent rights. Anyone untangling a custody fight or trying to understand how property gets divided will find the specific subcategories spelled out, which is more honest than a vague promise to handle "all family matters."

Criminal defense is the second main area. Kardos, Rickles & Hand represents clients in local, state, and federal courts on matters that include murder, DUI, robbery, drug offenses, and civil rights cases. That span, from a roadside DUI stop up to a homicide charge in federal court, is a serious claim. Personal injury rounds out the core practice, alongside business transactions, civil litigation, automobile accidents, wrongful death, and medical malpractice.

The obvious question with a list this long is whether any one area gets real depth or whether Kardos, Rickles & Hand is a general shop stretched across too many categories. The keyword context that placed this firm in a Law business directory entry points to family and divorce work in Bucks County, and that is plausibly where the practice is strongest, given how prominently the family subcategories are laid out. The criminal side at least names specific court levels, which suggests it is not purely decorative. Verifying depth in personal injury from the firm's own pages alone is harder.

One detail adds individual weight to the picture. Attorney Marc I. Rickles is noted in legal directories as a BV Distinguished Peer Review Rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, with close to forty years of practice. That rating is awarded by other lawyers, not purchased, and it is a meaningful marker of standing among colleagues in a way that client-facing reviews are not. It also lines up with the 1981 founding date, since a forty-year career maps onto a firm that has been operating that long. Kardos, Rickles & Hand is not a startup wearing an established name, and the peer recognition on at least one named partner gives the longevity claim something concrete to rest on.

What the rating platforms show

Birdeye carries a 4.4-star rating for Kardos, Rickles & Hand, though the snippet did not confirm how many reviews feed that number. Martindale.com shows a score of 4.2 or higher across at least six reviews. Lawyers.com has individual positive reviews tied to specific attorneys, which fits a firm now operating through separate lawyer-branded sites. Kardos, Rickles & Hand also appears on Yelp, though the review count there was not confirmed, and on the Better Business Bureau, where the firm is listed but not accredited, with two locations noted and no rating visible. No Trustpilot or Google totals were found.

A 4.2 to 4.4 band across a handful of platforms is the profile of a solid local firm with a steady client base, not a marketing machine chasing volume. For divorce or criminal matters, where clients are often distressed and rarely inclined to write public reviews afterward, a modest count of mostly positive ratings is about what you would expect from a practice like Kardos, Rickles & Hand. The BBB's "not accredited" status is worth noting but says little on its own, since accreditation is a paid membership and plenty of reputable firms skip it. The absence of a confirmed Google or Trustpilot total leaves some uncertainty, but the Martindale peer rating on Marc Rickles independently corroborates a degree of professional standing that reputation scores alone would not fully capture.

So the overall picture of Kardos, Rickles & Hand is of an established, broadly capable firm with a recognized name in Bucks County, a long-tenured and peer-rated partner, decent scores across the legal directories, and offices positioned well for the local market. The depth of the family law detail in particular makes Kardos, Rickles & Hand a credible starting point for a divorce or custody question in that region.

The unresolved part is structural, and it is not minor. The single domain that once represented Kardos, Rickles & Hand now splits its traffic between two separate attorney practices, which strongly points to the partnership as named no longer operating as one entity. A prospective client cannot tell from this listing alone whether hiring Kardos, Rickles & Hand means working with Kevin Hand, with Mel Kardos, with Marc Rickles, or with whatever arrangement now governs those three names. The listing keeps the old firm name intact, but whoever calls the Newtown number will need to ask directly which practitioner would handle their case and under what structure, because the published record does not answer that question.

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