Edgemont is not an incorporated village. The Town of Greenburgh’s official online guide lists Greenville among the Town’s unincorporated neighborhoods, together with Fairview, Hartsdale, East Irvington, North Elmsford, and South Ardsley. Official Town materials also use the name Edgemont, including a Town page devoted to incorporation information. Those official uses of both names describe an unincorporated part of the Town, not a separate municipality.
A person who lives in that area is a resident of the Town of Greenburgh. Local justice-court matters that belong in a town court go to Greenburgh Town Court. A divorce does not.
Greenburgh Town Hall is at 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607, on the Town’s official site. The Town’s official court page places Greenburgh Town Court at 188 Tarrytown Road, White Plains, NY 10607. The mailing city on that court address is White Plains, but the building is Town Court, not the Supreme Court courthouse.
The filing court for an Edgemont or Greenville resident is Supreme Court in Westchester County. It sits at the Richard J. Daronco Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, White Plains, NY 10601.
People who live in that unincorporated part of the Town — the area official Town materials call Greenville and Edgemont — can consult Gregory Salant, a partner at Harold, Salant, Strassfield & Rotbard, LLP, about divorce and related family-law matters. He sees clients at 81 Main Street, Suite 205, in White Plains, the city where Westchester County divorce cases are heard. The firm does not have an office in Edgemont.
Town Court at 188 Tarrytown Road is still not the divorce court
Greenburgh Town Court, at 188 Tarrytown Road, hears the local criminal, traffic, landlord-tenant, small-claims, and Town-code matters described on the Town’s court page. It has no power to grant a divorce, an annulment, or a judgment of separation. The White Plains mailing address does not convert Town Court into the Daronco Courthouse a few streets away. Town Hall, at 177 Hillside Avenue, is a third Greenburgh address, and it is used for Town administration, not for filing a divorce.
The six villages of the Town — Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, and Tarrytown — have their own village governments. Edgemont is not one of those villages. Greenville, or Edgemont, is one of several unincorporated neighborhoods on the Town guide's list; Hartsdale is a different one.
Edgemont residents have petitioned to incorporate as a village; the Town Supervisor rejected each petition, and litigation over the most recent petition, filed July 15, 2024, remains pending. As of November 2026, no incorporation vote has been held, and Edgemont remains an unincorporated part of the Town. Whether a village is later created is a separate question from the court that grants a divorce now.
Edgemont School District, with offices on White Oak Lane
Edgemont School District lists its offices at 300 White Oak Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583, on the district’s official site. A Scarsdale mailing address for those offices does not place an Edgemont home in the Town/Village of Scarsdale. The district for a particular house should be confirmed by address. Other public school districts also serve parts of the Town of Greenburgh.
Children’s issues, if they arise, ordinarily travel with the Supreme Court case. The standard is the best interests of the child. The school the child attends can be evidence. Attendance in Edgemont School District is not, by itself, a requirement that the child stay there, and it does not produce a 50/50 calendar. The child custody and parenting time page develops that standard.
Property under § 236(B)
Under Domestic Relations Law § 236(B), classification of each asset as marital or separate precedes equitable distribution of the marital estate. The court is not applying community property, and it is not required to award half to each spouse.
A home in the Greenville or Edgemont section of the Town is not classified by a Scarsdale mailing label or by a neighborhood name. The marital residence is often a central asset, along with pensions, deferred compensation, and any closely held business; among the statutory factors is a custodial parent's need to occupy or own the marital residence. Separate property is generally not divided. Commingling is one way that status can be lost. An increase in the value of separate property is marital to the extent it is due to the other spouse's contributions or efforts. Larger estates are taken up in more detail on the high-net-worth divorce page.
Grounds and how the papers are filed
Domestic Relations Law § 170 supplies the grounds. A frequently used ground is DRL § 170(7): one spouse states under oath that irretrievable breakdown of the relationship has existed for at least six months. On that ground the court will not sign a judgment until property, support, and any children's issues have been resolved or decided and are included in the judgment. Other grounds are listed in the same section.
The action is commenced by a summons with notice or a summons and verified complaint, after which service must be made. Beginning the case with a petition for dissolution is not New York practice.
Domestic Relations Law § 230 addresses residence as an element of whether a New York court may hear the case. The particular history has to be lined up with the statute. Broader context is on the Westchester divorce and White Plains divorce pages.
A completed agreement, or a trial later
A written agreement that already reduces every issue to settled terms can often support an uncontested divorce. When the issues are resolved, that course is often more efficient. It is not a reduced fee. Any issues that remain disputed may be tried.
Family Court cannot dissolve the marriage
Family Court will not enter a judgment of divorce. It will hear certain other family petitions. Its Westchester sites are 26 Garden Street, 3rd floor, New Rochelle; 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, White Plains; and 131 Warburton Avenue, 3rd floor, Yonkers. Which location hears a particular matter depends on the case. Issues that arise inside the divorce are often decided in Supreme Court.
Scheduling an appointment
To arrange an appointment with Gregory Salant, use the contact page or (914) 683-2500. Confidential case information should be reserved for the meeting itself. Contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Starting documents that often help, when they exist, are already-served pleadings, a tax return, account and debt statements, a deed or lease for a home in unincorporated Greenburgh, and notes on a child’s present school.
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Gregory Salant, Partner, Harold, Salant, Strassfield & Rotbard, LLP
81 Main Street, Suite 205, White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 683-2500 · gsalant@haroldsalant.com
Frequently asked questions
Can Greenburgh Town Court, at 188 Tarrytown Road, grant an Edgemont divorce?
No. The Town’s official court page places Town Court at that address. The White Plains mailing city does not make it Supreme Court. A divorce is filed at the Daronco Courthouse in White Plains.
Is Edgemont a village, or is it part of Scarsdale?
Neither. Official Town materials treat Greenville as an unincorporated neighborhood of Greenburgh and also use the name Edgemont. It is not one of the Town’s six villages, and a Scarsdale mailing address for the school-district offices does not place the home in the Town/Village of Scarsdale.
If Edgemont later became a village, would that change the divorce court?
No. Village courts, like Town Court, do not grant divorces. The filing court would remain Supreme Court in White Plains.
If the children attend Edgemont School District, at 300 White Oak Lane, does that decide custody?
No. Confirm the district by address. A best-interests analysis may consider the present school. It does not require a particular district or an equal parenting calendar.
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