Is this a Legitimate "fist packet isn't SYN drop"?

[Stefano_Cappell]

We have this transaction that, in this example, startsat 11:00. At 11.02 the remote server tries to close it sending the FIN but the local server tries to close it only half an hour later (at 11.30). This FIN packet gets retransmitted  but no ack is sent by the remote server. At last the local server sends a RST

 My problem here is that those Resets (and sometimes some final FIN ACK packet as well) get blocked by our Checkpoint as a "first packet isn't SYN"

Is this legitimate? the tcp session timeout configured for the firewall is 3600. Is this because those packet are past both side FIN packet and the TCP end timeout is set (by default) at 5 seconds?

thanks