| Term | Main definition |
|---|---|
| Paralegal | One of a wide range of personnel who works in a legal environment but is not as widely qualified as a solicitor or legal executive. |
| Parental Alienation | Conscious or unconscious behaviour by one parent which distances a child from the other. |
| Parental Responsibility (PR) | “All the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to a child and his property”. |
| Parental Responsibility Agreement | Agreement made between the parents of a child when one parent is not on the birth certificate that he (or she) should have parental responsibility. |
| Parental Responsibility Order (PRO) | Order that a father should be granted parental responsibility for the child concerned where there is no agreement with the mother. |
| Parenting Agreement | Detailed proposal for the day-to-day shared parenting of a couple’s children after divorce or separation. |
| Parenting Plan | A proposal for the parenting of a child after separation which will enable parents to produce a parenting agreement. |
| Parenting Plan | A proposal for the parenting of a child after separation which will enable parents to produce a parenting agreement. |
| Part-Heard | Case in which a hearing is adjourned until another day because time has run out. |
| Party Litigant | In Scotland, a litigant who represents himself without a solicitor or barrister. |
| Paternity Fraud | Fraudulent identification by a mother of a particular man as the father of her child. |
| Paypal | A payment method |
| Penal Notice | Notice attached to the terms of an order which enables punishment to be imposed on the party who disregards it. |
| Pension Attachment Order | Requires a spouse to pay part of his pension to the other party. |
| Pension Earmarking | Process for arranging that, when a pension comes to be paid, a proportion is paid to the other party. |