On October 6, 2026, Shakira and Gerard Piqué met at Barcelona’s City of Justice to discuss arrangements for visits with Milan and Sasha. The singer wants the former footballer to take on some of the travel needed to maintain contact with their children, without cutting into the time they spend with their father. The proposal aims to avoid short, repeated transatlantic flights.
The request focuses on holiday periods lasting only a few days. During those breaks, Piqué would travel to Miami to see his children, who would stay there. Shakira’s team says this would avoid time-zone changes and help preserve the children’s established routines at school and at home.
The matter is now before Barcelona’s Court of First Instance No. 18, which specializes in family cases. The two sides negotiated before the hearing but failed to reach an agreement. Both appeared in person before the court on October 6, EFE reported.
The existing arrangement already provided for regular visits by Gerard Piqué to his children in Miami. The dispute is not about whether those visits take place, but how to organize the travel that makes them possible. The proposal divides the transport burden between the adults so the children do not have to shoulder the journeys between Spain and the United States on their own.
Shakira and Piqué ratified their separation agreement in December 2022, allowing the singer to move to Miami with their children. Milan and Sasha have lived there with their mother since April 2023. Nearly four years after that agreement, the dispute centers on who should bear the practical costs of maintaining a long-distance family relationship: whether the adults or the children travel between the two continents.
Shakira’s proposal focuses on how long each visit actually lasts. When holidays are short, a round trip between Miami and Barcelona can disrupt the children’s schedules and reduce the time available to spend with their father. The alternative would shift that effort to the parent traveling to Miami and let the children remain in their usual surroundings.
The case has reopened debate over the logistics of visits, although the children’s residence has already been settled. The 2022 agreement allowed the move and set out the structure for their relationship with their father. The parties have returned to court to review how the journeys are arranged. So far, no final court ruling or public statement from Piqué on Shakira’s proposal has been reported.
Shakira’s public profile is also part of the context. The artist is scheduled to perform a series of twelve concerts in Madrid for 600,000 people, information from la cobertura anterior. In Barcelona, the dispute is about who makes the journeys and how to protect the daily continuity of two children living in Miami, not about the stage or the singer’s professional schedule.
The proposal calls for sharing the effort and keeping Piqué involved in his children’s lives. The court must resolve a practical question within an existing arrangement: how to maintain visits without making Milan and Sasha primarily responsible for transatlantic travel.
