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The 74-year-old man was surfing at Currumbin Alley, on the south end of the Gold Coast, at around 7:30am on Wednesday before falling off his wave ski and failing to resurface.
Sixteen days before he died, a Hamilton man was in hospital when he signed a handwritten will that gives a local church his condo. Now, the church is in a court battle against his common-law partner, who argues the will was obtained under "suspicious circumstances."