Robert Douglas Aplin

Robert Douglas Aplin is a partner at Scott & Aplin LLC. He was born in Auburn, Indiana in December, 1973 where he lived until the closing of the Fort Wayne International Harvester Plant caused his family to relocate to Ohio in 1986. He spent the balance of his childhood in Springfield, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from law school, he practiced law in Defiance, Ohio until he returned to Indiana in 2005. Mr. Aplin is a 1992 graduate of Sylvania Southview High School in Sylvania, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Kent State University in 1996 and received his Juris Doctor Degree from The Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law in 1999.

In 2025, Mr. Aplin celebrated twenty (25) years practicing law. He is licensed to practice before all state courts in the states of Ohio and Indiana. He is also licensed to practice before the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Mr. Aplin has been a Mortgage Foreclosure Workout Facilitator as appointed by various Courts throughout Northeast Indiana. Since 2010, Mr. Aplin has assisted numerous homeowners in Adams, Allen, Dekalb, Wells and Whitley Counties save their homes from foreclosure. In the past, he has served as the Village Solicitor for the Village of Hicksville in Defiance County, Ohio and the Village of Melrose in Paulding County, Ohio.

Mr. Aplin concentrates his practice in the areas of construction litigation, real estate and general civil litigation. He currently represents the legal interests of over 30 homeowner's associations in and around the greater Fort Wayne area, numerous small businesses and various contractors in the building trades.

Mr. Aplin and his wife, Catherine, reside in rural Huntington County, Indiana. In his free time, Mr. Aplin enjoys spending time with his children and grandchild. He is the proud parent of United States Marine currently stationed abroad.