Commentary for Kiddushin 142:1

כאן להשיאו אשה כאן להוציא אשה מידו

here it is to permit him to take a wife; there it is to take the wife from him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to order him to divorce her. When one wishes to marry a woman of proved pure descent, he must prove his own fitness, if he lacks the established presumption. On the other hand, if he is married to such, he is not compelled to divorce her unless his own unfitness is established.');">¹</span> R'Joseph said: He whose speech is Babylonian is permitted to take a wife [of superior birth]. But nowadays that there are dissemblers, we fear [them].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is not accepted as sufficient proof.');">²</span>

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