[My thanks to Charles K for the following]
A gabbai approaches a guest in the shul and says to him, “I want to give you an aliyah. What’s your Hebrew name?”
“It’s Rivkah bas Tzvi,” replies the man.
“No,” says the gabbai, “I need your name, not your wife’s name.”
But the man says, “It really is Rivkah bas Tzvi.”
“I’m confused then,” says the gabbai. “How can that really be your name?”
The man answers, “I’m currently having some major financial problems and everything, and I mean everything, has been put in my wife’s name.”
Credit: David Minkoff, A Word In Your Eye