Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 235:11

א"ר יהודה אמר שמואל הלכה כרבי טרפון אמר אביי אף אנן נמי תנינא ניתן לי בן במדינת הים מת בני ואח"כ בעלי נאמנת בעלי ואחר כך בני אינה נאמנת

Rab Judah stated in the name of Samuel: The <i>halachah</i> is in agreement with R. Tarfon. Said Abaye: We also learned the same: [If a woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who went to a country beyond the sea with her husband before any issue was born from their union. ');">³⁵</span> states],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On her return. ');">³⁶</span> 'A son was given to me in a country beyond the sea, and my son died first while my husband died after him', she is believed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And may contract levirate marriage. Her evidence merely confirms the status in which she was already at the time of her departure. At that time as well as now she had no children to exempt her from the levirate obligations. ');">³⁷</span> [If, however, she states]. 'My husband [died first] and my son died after him', she is not believed,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To be permitted to marry a stranger without previous halizah with the levir. The evidence of a woman is accepted only in respect of the death of her husband, where it is assumed that she takes all possible care to ascertain the fact of his death. it is not, however, accepted in respect of liberating her from a levir against whom she might have been nursing a personal hatred, so that she would, without making the necessary enquiries, be ready on the flimsiest of proofs to testify anything which enables her to get rid of him. ');">³⁸</span>

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