If a divorce is contested, it means that the parties are unable to agree on some aspect of the case and that the respondent in the action has filed a response to the petition for divorce to contest it.
Issues that must be resolved prior to the court granting a divorce are child custody, child support, spousal maintenance, division of property and debts. If an agreement cannot be reached by both parties, the case will go to a trial before a judge who will render a decision on the unresolved issues. In Arizona there are no juries in a divorce case.
An uncontested divorce is one that the parties mutually agree on all the issues and there are no disputes.