On January 10, 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an advisory opinion (only available in Spanish) that held for the first time that individuals have the right to have their legal names amended to conform with their gender identity and that couples have the right to same-sex unions under the American Convention on Human Rights. Puerto Rico initiated the case in 2016 when the government asked the Court whether it had an obligation to extend property rights to same-sex couples and allow transgender people to change their name and genders on identity documentation. The ruling confirms that couples in same-sex marriages have the same family and financial rights as heterosexual married couples and said that member states should treat same-sex couples without discrimination.