How much money can a parent give a child?

Given the question, the my opinion is that the question is the rethoricial: how much wood can a wood chuck chuck? To adjust the question: 1) how much money can an indivual person give another individual without being required to pay gift taxes, or file a gift tax return? 2) How much money does a parent have to give a child? And then, all, is good idea, on the otherhand, none workes in most states. On the other hand, if the question merely deals with annual tax free gifts: on $10,000, without the filing of a gift tax return, nothing. Obviously, it deals with your situation, if you got that much money to worry about taxes, and such, why dont you just get a tax planner or an estate planner? Or seriously spend some time on the web asking lots of quetions, and understanding that paying for advice is cheep when you need it. Nothing personal, but from the quetion, you appear to me to be seriously penny wise and pound cheep. (I'll be back with links later)