Related for Ketubot 161:12
והתניא ר' אבא אומר שאלתי את סומכוס הרוצה שימכור בנכסי אחיו כיצד הוא עושה אם כהן הוא יעשה סעודה ויפייס אם ישראל הוא מגרש בגט ויחזיר
Has it not in fact, been taught: R. Abba stated, “I asked Symmachus: ‘One who wants to sell his brother’s property, how is he to proceed’ [and he replied,] ‘If he is a priest, he should prepare a banquet and use persuasive means.’ If he is an Israelite he may divorce her and then marry her again.’”
Tosefta Ketubot
A man who dies and leaves his wife as someone waiting for her levir, even if he leaves property of 100 maneh and her ketubah is only 1 maneh (sic! supplied from manuscripts), his inheritors are not able to sell [any of it] because all the property is [potentially] mortgaged for her ketubah. What should he [the levir] do? Marry her and divorce her, and she should write for him a receipt for her ketubah. If he left his brothers money, or the yevamah had money in a debt to her husband, he shouldn't say "Since I inherit, I will seize [them]"—rather, they take [them] away from him and buy with them land [i.e. property] and he eats the fruit [i.e. gets the profits from it].
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