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That part of the spirit world inhabited by righteous spirits who are awaiting the day of their resurrection is called paradise. it is "a state of happiness, ....a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow."
Source: McConkie, Bruce R., Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966. 554.
Paradise may be said to be heaven in the sense that heaven is a place of peace, rest, and solace where the righteous go at death. Paradise is not heaven, however, in the sense of being an ultimate and eternal abode of the righteous, for those in paradise are awaiting the day of their resurrection and assignment to a mansion of glory in the eternal world.
Source: McConkie, Bruce R., Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966. 347 - 348.
If you are faithful to the truth,....you will then be ushered into the presence of the holy and the just. You will dwell in the paradise of God, waiting with delightful anticipations the time when your spirits and your bodies will be re-united, and when you shall dwell together with the holy, the just, and exalted ones in the presence of God and the Lamb, nevermore, as the Prophets have said, to depart or to go out thence....
Source: McKay, David O. Selections From the Discourses of David O. McKay: Ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1991. 78.
The term 'righteous' refers to righteous Mormons. They're the only ones who'll be in paradise. Everyone else will wait in spirit prison.