What is the effect of freezing the estate of a deceased with respect to a dispute between two parties?

Manitoba, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sheen v. Sheen, 2003 MBCA 93 (CanLII):

17 An argument can be made that the estate remain frozen until all issues between these parties have been resolved. It may already be too late for these parties to avoid the fate of the parties in the fictitious case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, but, by freezing the estate assets for the time being, the eventually successful party will have some prospect of recovering a small part of his or their entitlement.

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