“I realized I had to help these people, but all I could do was administrative work with an attorney watching over what I did,” she said.įor a time, she considered moving back to her home, but the call to service was too great. As she studied, she also found work at local law firms.

It was then she decided to devote her time to passing the Delaware Bar Exam. She also realized there was a great need for a Spanish-speaking real estate lawyer in the area. “They helped me so much, just like the whole community has helped me out,” Echevarria said. She has also passed the New York Bar Exam.Īfter they read an article in this newspaper about her plight, Echevarria was invited to stay with Dorothy and Eric Cartagena, who were also from Puerto Rico, in their Lewes home. She thought her stay in Lewes would be temporary, and she returned to Puerto Rico in 2018 to take the bar exam, which she passed.

“That little gesture we made to him, he has paid back 10 times or more,” Echevarria said. He let her and her friends stay on his sailboat for three days while they showed him around parts of the island. 14, 2016, and arrived in Lewes the next day.Įchevarria met Gaston while he was on a sailing excursion to Puerto Rico. “I figured I could get a job and send my family money. On a second visit to San Juan, she called Gaston, and he offered her a place to stay in Lewes. There was also an unexpected email from Gaston asking how she was doing. On a trip to San Juan, she was able to make internet connection and finally get a true look at the devastation suffered throughout her country and other countries in the Caribbean. The hurricanes got in the way of that.įor more than two weeks, Echevarria was without contact to the outside world.

It was Gaston and his wife, Achareeya, who opened their home to Echevarria following the devastation of her hometown in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.Īs people were still recovering from Hurricane Irma, Maria hit Puerto Rico with winds gusting to nearly 120 mph while more than 3 feet of rain fell.Įchevarria had recently graduated from law school and was studying to take her bar exam. A chance meetingĪ chance meeting with Lewes-area sailor and contractor Scott Gaston in 2016 near her home in Puerto Rico turned out to be life changing.

Her path after leaving her hurricane-ravaged home in Puerto Rico to reach this point has been filled with obstacles and setbacks, and yet unbelievable timing and persistence. Echevarria Attorneys at Law, in Carpenter’s Crossing along Kings Highway in Lewes. What has happened in the life of Laneyscha Echevarria over the last six years is what people write books about.Įchevarria recently opened her own real estate law office, L.

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