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Tosefta for Ketubot 4:12

אַתְּ תְּהֵא יָתְבָא בְּבֵיתִי וּמִתְּזָנָא מִנִּכְסַי, כָּל יְמֵי מִגַּד אַלְמְנוּתִיךְ בְּבֵיתִי, חַיָּב, שֶׁהוּא תְנַאי בֵּית דִּין. כָּךְ הָיוּ אַנְשֵׁי יְרוּשָׁלַיִם כּוֹתְבִין. אַנְשֵׁי גָלִיל הָיוּ כוֹתְבִין כְּאַנְשֵׁי יְרוּשָׁלָיִם. אַנְשֵׁי יְהוּדָה הָיוּ כוֹתְבִין, עַד שֶׁיִּרְצוּ הַיּוֹרְשִׁים לִתֵּן לִיךְ כְּתֻבְּתִיךְ. לְפִיכָךְ אִם רָצוּ הַיּוֹרְשִׁין, נוֹתְנִין לָהּ כְּתֻבָּתָהּ וּפוֹטְרִין אוֹתָהּ:

[If he did not write in her <i>ketubah</i>], "You shall live in my house, and be fed out of my property, as long as you remain a widow in my house," he is, [nonetheless], obligated is [nevertheless] in force, as that is a [fixed] stipulation [enacted] by the court. [The above] is what the men of Jerusalem would write [in their <i>ketubot</i>]. The men of the Galilee would write like the men of Jerusalem. [however,] the men of Judea would write "[You shall live in my house, and be fed out of my property] until the heirs want to give you [the amount of] your <i>ketubah</i>." Therefore, if the heirs want, they [may] give her [the amount of] her <i>ketubah</i>, and dismiss her.

Tosefta Ketubot

If he did not write for her "Male children that you will have from me will inherit the money of your ketubah over and above their inheritance portions with their brothers" (ketubat banin dikhrin), he is obligated [to follow that procedure anyway], since it is a stipulation of the court. All lands write like the people of Jerusalem. (This seems to be a comment on Mishnah Ketubot 4:12, what is reported their to be Jerusalemite practice is here endorsed for everyone, that widows will be financed from the dead husband's estate for as long as they live there).
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