Describe the actual proposed role and have the spouse’s individual status and work permission assessed. A family relationship does not itself authorize work.
Keep the staffing and status facts separate
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children do not gain that permission solely through L dependent status. Do not present family participation as confirmed staffing when the arrangement or relevant status remains unresolved.
Timing separates the two matters more clearly than any wording does. A spouse's employment authorization runs with the spouse's own status and its documentation, beginning and ending on its own dates, which need not line up with the founder's first year. Build the staffing plan on what will be permitted on the date the work is actually needed, not on what may become available at some point during the year.
Where a spouse's participation is genuinely intended, state when it is expected to begin and on what basis, and treat the earlier period as unstaffed. Children hold dependent status for its own purposes and gain no work permission from it, so a plan assuming family labour beyond the authorized spouse describes something that cannot lawfully happen. Check the spouse's documentation dates again before each stage of the case.
Authorization tied to status ends when that status ends, whatever the staffing plan may still assume on paper.