Exhibit
9
April,
2000
Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company
1295 State
Street
Springfield, MA
01111
Re: Post-Effective Amendment No. 19 to
Registration Statement
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No. 2-75412 filed
on Form N-4
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Ladies and
Gentlemen:
This opinion is
furnished in connection with the filing of Post-Effective Amendment No. 19
to Registration Statement No. 2-75412 on Form N-4 under the Securities Act
of 1933 for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company’s
(“MassMutual”) flexible premium variable annuity contract (the
“Contract”). Massachusetts Mutual Variable Annuity Separate
Account 1 issues the Contract.
As an attorney for
MassMutual, I provide legal advice to MassMutual in connection with the
operation of its variable products. In such role I am familiar with the
Post-Effective Amendment for the Contract. In so acting, I have made such
examination of the law and examined such records and documents as in my
judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable me to render the opinion
expressed below. I am of the following opinion:
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1.
MassMutual is a valid and subsisting corporation, organized and
operated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is
subject to regulation by the Massachusetts Commissioner of
Insurance.
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2.
Massachusetts Mutual Variable Annuity Separate Account 1 is a
separate account validly established and maintained by MassMutual in
accordance with Massachusetts law.
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3. All
of the prescribed corporate procedures for the issuance of the Contract
have been followed, and all applicable state laws have been complied
with.
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I hereby consent to
the use of this opinion as an exhibit to this Post-Effective
Amendment.
