Shakira asks Barcelona court to make Pique fly to Miami
The singer wants the father to visit their sons in Miami during shorter school breaks, instead of the boys flying to Barcelona. Her team says she is not asking for less time with him.
Shakira is asking a Barcelona court to reverse the travel arrangement for shorter school breaks: Gerard Pique would go to Miami, and their two sons would no longer fly to Spain. The hearing took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at Barcelona’s City of Justice. Shakira (49) and Pique (39) both attended in person, Spanish media report, rather than leaving the case entirely to their lawyers.
The boys are 13 and 11. They live with their mother in Miami, while their father is in Barcelona. The singer is not asking to scrap the agreement, only to change one part of it, the part covering international travel. The available reports contain no reaction from Pique to the request.
What exactly is Shakira asking for?
For shorter school breaks, she wants Pique to travel to Miami and see the boys there, instead of the children flying to Barcelona. Her representatives said in a statement, carried by Spanish media, that during short breaks “the father would travel to Miami.” The reasoning is practical: a few days in Spain means a transatlantic flight, a change of time zone and a disrupted routine. According to the statement, the proposal is meant to protect the boys’ “emotional, physical and academic well-being.”
Serbian media carried the statement on how to share the burden of travel in two different translations. Mondo renders it this way:
“The aim is that the effort of traveling between Miami and Barcelona does not fall exclusively on them”
B92 translates the same statement differently, as a message from the singer’s legal team:
“We want travel between Miami and Barcelona not to be the exclusive obligation of the children”
Shakira’s team also rejected the reading that she wants to cut the time her sons spend with their father. In its words, what changes is not how often the boys see Pique, but who travels to make the visit happen. A trip between Florida and Spain on a short break can eat up a large share of the available time.
The singer is currently performing concerts in Madrid, so she traveled to Barcelona for the hearing, B92 reports.
What was agreed in 2022?
The couple split in early 2022. In December of that year, before Family Court No. 18 in Barcelona, they ratified an agreement that allowed Shakira to move to Miami with the children. They jointly announced at the time that they had reached an “agreement that guarantees the well-being of our children.”
Shakira moved with the boys in April 2023, and Pique stayed in Spain. The latest proceeding comes almost four years later and concerns one part of that agreement, not its cancellation.
The children’s privacy
The statement ends with a request that the boys’ privacy be respected throughout the proceedings. Shakira has made that request before. After the move to Miami in 2023, when the breakup with Pique was drawing heavy media attention, she appealed to journalists and photographers:
“Please respect their right to privacy”
She said then that, besides being an artist, she is first and foremost a mother who wants to protect her children’s well-being.
