Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 204:19

דתניא מי שמת והניח בן קטן לאמו יורשי האב אומרים יהא גדל אצלנו ואמו אומרת יהא בני גדל אצלי מניחין אותו אצל אמו ואין מניחין אותו אצל ראוי ליורשו מעשה היה ושחטוהו ער"ה

For it was taught: If a man died and left a young son with his mother, [and] the father’s heirs demand, “Let him be brought up with us” and his mother claims, “My son should be brought up by me,” [the son] must be left with his mother, but may not be left with anyone who is entitled to be his heir. This once occurred and [the heirs] killed him on the eve of Pesach!

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