Haha! Great question. Thumbs-up. Probably best routed to "outside the bag" category, though. The wife, clearly you know you'd have no "right" to that, well at least in any of these United States. And children are little humans, right, not chattel? The "stuff" is a dicier issue. But I am going to put my legal brain to it and try to find an answer. If he bought it for cash, and used your name...like at Radio Shack when they used to make you write your name on a customer mailing list even if you paid cash, then it is his. Your identity didn't help him obtain it. Giving your name was just a throw-away. If he used your credit card, you could exercise the option to keep something but (think it through, dude...) why WOULD you? 1) it is probably stuff he likes, like a sweater in his size and his color preference; 2) even if it IS something you like, it is used BY HIM, and even if you can't see that it is used, it might be, and fall apart prematurely (why not just return it and buy a used one); and most importantly, credit card companies are always a little bit leary about this stuff anyway. They have half a mind that your theft claim is really just a fraud in disguise. Why would you give them reason to start a criminal investigation, by saying, "oh yeah, I want to keep half of the stuff"? Oh and...good luck showing up to the asshole's job, punching the punch card and going on from there. I'd love to see how THAT ONE works out. But, hey, if he used your resume, and it's better than your last job, try to sell the boss on it. But in terms of rights or entitlement, you've gotta be kidding.