EXHIBIT
9
OPINION OF AND
CONSENT OF COUNSEL
April,
2000
C.M. Life Insurance
Company
140 Garden
Street
Hartford, CT
06154
Re:
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Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement
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No. 333-80991 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. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-80991 on Form N-4 under
the Securities Act of 1933 for C.M. Life Insurance Company’s (“CM
Life”) flexible premium variable annuity contract (the
“Contract”). C.M. Multi-Account A issues the Contract.
As an
attorney for CM Life, I provide legal advice to CM Life 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:
1.
CM Life is a valid and subsisting corporation,
organized and operated under the laws of the state of Connecticut and is
subject to regulation by the Connecticut Commissioner of
Insurance.
2.
C.M. Multi-Account A is a separate account validly
established and maintained by CM Life in accordance with Connecticut
law.
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.
I hereby
consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to this Post-Effective
Amendment.
